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Nearest Communities to Zamora Acres,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.<1>

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

Zamora Acres is located in La Salle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of La Salle County: Atascosa, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, McMullen, Webb & Zavala.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Zamora Acres. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than La Salle 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 Zamora Acres (which is La Salle 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 Zamora Acres

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

  • La Salle County   (where Zamora Acres resides)
    • County Website:   https://co.la-salle.tx.us/
    • County Seat for La Salle:   Cotulla
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Zamora Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Zamora Acres.
      • Cotulla
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Gardendale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Gardendale is located in La Salle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardendale
      • Woodward ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Woodward is located in La Salle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodward
      • Millett
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Millett is located in La Salle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millett
      • Artesia Wells
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Los Angeles
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Dull
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Dull is located in La Salle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dull
      • Fowlerton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Encinal
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Dimmit County
    • County Website:   https://www.dimmitcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Dimmit:   Carrizo Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Zamora Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Zamora Acres.
      • Las Vegas
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Las Vegas is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Vegas
      • Valley Wells
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Valley Wells is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Wells
      • Kearny
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Kearny is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearny
      • Big Wells
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Catarina
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Brundage
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Brundage is located in Dimmit County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brundage
  • Frio County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.frio.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Frio:   Pearsall
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Zamora Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Zamora Acres.
      • Dilley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Hilltop
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Hilltop is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop has also been known as:
        • Hilltop Colonia
      • Divot ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Divot is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divot
      • Derby
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Derby is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
        • Derby has also been known as:
        • Derby Colonia
      • Parks Corner Windmill
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Las Flores
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Las Flores is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Flores
      • Melon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Melon is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melon
      • Orelia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Orelia is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orelia
      • Cude Crossing Windmill
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • McMullen 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 from Point A (ie- Zamora Acres) 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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