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Nearest Communities to Windthorst,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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 from Windthorst.<1>

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

Windthorst is primarily located in Archer County. A portion of Windthorst extends into Clay County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Archer County: Baylor, Clay, Jack, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger & Young.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 59 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Windthorst. Of these communities, 47 are located in counties other than Archer 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 Windthorst (which is Archer 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 Windthorst

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

  • Archer County   (where Windthorst resides)
  • Clay County
    • County Website:   https://www.claycountytx.net/
    • County Seat for Clay:   Henrietta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Windthorst   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Windthorst.
      • Deer Creek
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Deer Creek is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek
      • Halsell
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Halsell is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halsell
      • Joy
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Shannon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bluegrove
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Prospect
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Prospect is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prospect
      • Buffalo Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Buffalo Springs is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
      • Jolly
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Raymond
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Raymond is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond
      • Frame
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Frame is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frame
      • Henrietta
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Vashti
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Vashti is located in Clay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vashti
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Dickworsham
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Dickworsham is located in Clay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickworsham
        • Bellevue
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Newport
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Dean
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Walton
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Walton is located in Clay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walton
        • Huggins
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Huggins is located in Clay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huggins
        • Edwards
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Edwards is located in Clay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
        • Hurnville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Hurnville is located in Clay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurnville
  • Jack County
  • Wichita County
  • Young County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Windthorst) 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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