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Nearest Communities to Ziler,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Ziler is located in Howard County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ziler. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Howard 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 Ziler (which is Howard 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 Ziler

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

  • Howard County   (where Ziler resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ziler   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ziler.
      • Midway
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Sand Springs
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Coahoma
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Big Spring
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Webb Village
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • South Haven
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Fairview
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Fairview is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Elbow
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • Forsan
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Luther
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Luther is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • Ross City ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Ross City is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Morita
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Morita is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
        • Knott
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Vincent
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Vincent is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
        • Lomax
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Lomax is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
        • Vealmoor
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Dawson County
  • Glasscock County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ziler   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ziler.
      • Brown
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Brown is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
      • Stanton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Merrick
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Lenorah
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Flower Grove
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Flower Grove is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
      • Dix
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
      • Courtney
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Grady
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
  • Mitchell County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Mitchell:   Colorado City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ziler   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ziler.
      • Iatan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
      • Hyman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Hyman is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyman
      • Westbrook
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Spade
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Spade is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
      • Cuthbert ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Cuthbert is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
  • Scurry County
  • Sterling County

Footnotes ...

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