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Nearest Communities to Wink,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Wink.<1>

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

Wink is located in Winkler County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Winkler County: Lea (NM), Andrews, Ector, Loving & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wink. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Winkler 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 Wink (which is Winkler 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 Wink

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

  • Winkler County   (where Wink resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.winkler.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Winkler:   Kermit
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wink   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wink.
      • Cheyenne
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Kermit
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Vesrue
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vesrue have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesrue
        • Vesrue is located in Winkler County
      • Magwalt
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magwalt have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magwalt
        • Magwalt is located in Winkler County
      • Cowden Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cowden Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden Place
        • Cowden Place is located in Winkler County
  • Ector County
    • County Website:   www.co.ector.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ector:   Odessa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wink   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wink.
      • Notrees
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Notrees have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Notrees
        • Notrees is located in Ector County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Notrees <3>
      • Metz
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metz have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
        • Metz is located in Ector County
      • Judkins
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Loving County
  • Reeves County
  • Ward County
    • County Seat for Ward:   Monahans
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wink   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wink.
      • Three Corner Windmill
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Corner Windmill
        • Three Corner Windmill is located in Ward County
      • Pyote
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Wickett
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wickett have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickett
        • Wickett is located in Ward County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wickett <3>
      • Thorntonville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thorntonville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorntonville
        • Thorntonville is located in Ward County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people
      • Monahans
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Barstow
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Lea County
    • County Website:   www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wink   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wink.
      • Bennett ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bennett have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Bennett is located in Lea County (NM)
      • Andrews Place
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Andrews Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
        • Andrews Place is located in Lea County (NM)
      • Jal
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jal have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
        • Jal is located in Lea County (NM)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <3>
      • Medlin Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medlin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
        • Medlin Place is located in Lea County (NM)

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- Wink) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wink. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.7514, Longitude: -103.1601    
<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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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