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Nearest Communities to Whitestar,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Whitestar, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Whitestar:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Whitestar.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Whitestar is located in Motley County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Motley County: Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall & King.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Whitestar. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Motley County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Whitestar (which is Motley County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Whitestar

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Motley County   (where Whitestar resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.motley.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Motley:   Matador
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Whitestar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Whitestar.
      • Flomot
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Whiteflat
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Whiteflat is located in Motley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiteflat
      • Folley
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Folley is located in Motley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folley
      • Matador
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • MacBain
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • MacBain is located in Motley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for MacBain
      • Roaring Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Northfield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Northfield is located in Motley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield
      • Russellville ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Russellville is located in Motley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russellville
  • Briscoe County
  • Cottle County
  • Crosby County
  • Dickens County
  • Floyd County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.floyd.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Floyd:   Floydada
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Whitestar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Whitestar.
      • Fairmont
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Fairmont is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairmont
      • Gray Mule ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Gray Mule is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Mule
      • Cedar Hill
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Cedar Hill is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
      • Johnfarris
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Johnfarris is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnfarris
      • Dougherty
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Boothe
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Boothe is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boothe
      • South Plains
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Della Plain ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Della Plain is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Della Plain
      • Floydada
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Muncy
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Muncy is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muncy
        • Sterley ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Sterley is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterley
        • Lakeview
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Lakeview is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Lone Star
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Lone Star is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
        • Lockney
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Plains Assembly
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Plains Assembly is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains Assembly
  • Hall County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whitestar) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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