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Nearest Communities to Portal,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Portal.<1>

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

Portal is located in Cochise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cochise County: Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz & Hidalgo (NM).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Portal. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Cochise 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 Portal (which is Cochise 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 Portal

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

  • Cochise County   (where Portal resides)
  • Hidalgo County
    • County Website:   https://hidalgocounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hidalgo:   Lordsburg (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Portal   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Portal.
      • Rodeo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Mouser Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Mouser Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouser Place
      • Animas
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Cotton City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Cotton City is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton City
      • Eaton Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Eaton Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton Place
      • Old Isaacs Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Old Isaacs Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Isaacs Place
      • Rock Cabin
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Rock Cabin is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Cabin
      • Lower Lovett Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Lower Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Lovett Place
      • Upper Lovett Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Upper Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Lovett Place
      • McGhee Wells
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • McGhee Wells is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGhee Wells
      • Eakins
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Eakins is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eakins
      • Gibson Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Gibson Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson Place
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Gibson
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Jim Robinson
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Jim Robinson is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jim Robinson
        • Lovett
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Lovett is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovett
        • Spears
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Spears is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears
        • Steins ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Bene Dunagan
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Bene Dunagan is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bene Dunagan
        • Mace
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Mace is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mace
        • Joe Yarbrough
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Joe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joe Yarbrough
        • Middle Wells
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Middle Wells is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Wells
        • Antelope
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Antelope is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
        • Abe Yarbrough
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Abe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abe Yarbrough
        • Birchfield
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Birchfield is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchfield
        • Mondel
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Mondel is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondel
        • Double Adobes
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Double Adobes is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Adobes
        • Upshaw Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Upshaw Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upshaw Place
        • Yarbrough Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Yarbrough Place is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarbrough Place
        • Windmill
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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- Portal) 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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