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Nearest Communities to Winter Haven,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.

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

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

Winter Haven is located in Dimmit County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dimmit County: Frio, La Salle, Maverick, Webb & Zavala.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Winter Haven. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Dimmit 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 Winter Haven (which is Dimmit 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 Winter Haven

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

  • Dimmit County   (where Winter Haven resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.dimmitcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Dimmit:   Carrizo Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Winter Haven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Winter Haven.
      • Espantosa Colonia
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Espantosa Colonia is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Espantosa Colonia
      • Carrizo Springs
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Carrizo Hill
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Carrizo Hill is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizo Hill
      • Brundage
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Brundage is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brundage
      • Asherton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Big Wells
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Las Vegas
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Las Vegas is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Vegas
      • Valley Wells
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Valley Wells is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Wells
      • Gilson Groves
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Gilson Groves is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilson Groves
      • Catarina
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Kearny
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Kearny is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearny
  • Maverick County
  • Zavala County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.zavala.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Zavala:   Crystal City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Winter Haven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Winter Haven.
      • Chula Vista - River Spur
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Chula Vista
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Chula Vista is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chula Vista
        • Chula Vista has also been known as:
        • Chula Vista Colonia
      • Popeye Lake
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Popeye Lake is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Popeye Lake
        • Popeye Lake has also been known as:
        • Popeye Lake Colonia
      • River Spur
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • River Spur is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Spur
      • Bushy Creek
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Bushy Creek is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushy Creek
        • Bushy Creek has also been known as:
        • Bushy Creek Colonia
      • Camposanto - Elcometa
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Camposanto - Elcometa is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camposanto - Elcometa
        • Camposanto - Elcometa has also been known as:
        • Camposanto - Elcometa Colonia
      • Crystal City
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Amaya
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Amaya is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amaya
        • Amaya has also been known as:
        • Amaya Colonia
      • Las Colonias
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Las Colonias is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Colonias
      • Loma Grande
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Loma Grande is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Grande
        • Loma Grande has also been known as:
        • Loma Grande Colonia
      • Triangula
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Triangula is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangula
        • Triangula has also been known as:
        • Triangula Colonia
      • Bee Crest
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Bee Crest is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Crest
        • Bee Crest has also been known as:
        • Bee Crest Colonia
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Cometa
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
          • Cometa is located in Zavala County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cometa
        • Nueces Campsite Lots Colonia
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • La Pryor
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Batesville
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

Footnotes ...

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