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Nearest Communities to Oak Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Oak Springs is located in Apache County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oak Springs. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Apache 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 Oak Springs (which is Apache 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 Oak Springs

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

  • Apache County   (where Oak Springs resides)
  • McKinley County
    • County Website:   www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
    • County Seat for McKinley:   Gallup (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oak Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oak Springs.
      • Manuelito
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manuelito have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manuelito
        • Manuelito is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Defiance
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Tse Bonito
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tse Bonito have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tse Bonito
        • Tse Bonito is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Mentmore ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mentmore have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mentmore
        • Mentmore is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Twin Buttes
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Buttes
        • Twin Buttes is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Allison ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Allison have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
        • Allison is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Rock Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Chi Chil Tah
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chi Chil Tah have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chi Chil Tah
        • Chi Chil Tah is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Gamerco ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gamerco have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamerco
        • Gamerco is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Red Rock
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Gallup
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Gibson ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gibson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
        • Gibson is located in McKinley County (NM)
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        • Yah-ta-hey
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yah-ta-hey have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yah-ta-hey
          • Yah-ta-hey is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Weaver ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weaver have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
          • Weaver is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Heaton ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heaton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
          • Heaton is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Twin Lakes
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
          • Twin Lakes is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Vanderwagen
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Bread Springs
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Pinehaven
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinehaven have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehaven
          • Pinehaven is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Rehoboth
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Sundance
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sundance have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundance
          • Sundance is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Mexican Springs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Zuni
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zuni have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zuni
          • Zuni is located in McKinley County (NM)
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zuni <3>
        • Navajo
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
          • Navajo is located in McKinley County (NM)
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Navajo <3>
        • Church Rock
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • McCune
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCune have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCune
          • McCune is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Navajo Wingate Village
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo Wingate Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo Wingate Village
          • Navajo Wingate Village is located in McKinley 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 from Point A (ie- Oak Springs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4755, Longitude: -109.1323    
<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.




 

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