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Nearest Communities to Sprucedale,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Sprucedale is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Greenlee County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Greenlee County: Apache, Cochise, Graham, Catron (NM), Grant (NM) & Hidalgo (NM).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sprucedale. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Greenlee County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Sprucedale (which is Greenlee 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 Sprucedale

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

  • Greenlee County   (where Sprucedale resides)
    • County Website:   https://greenlee.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Greenlee:   Clifton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sprucedale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sprucedale.
      • Cleaveland
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Cleaveland is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleaveland
      • Hannagan Meadow
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Hannagan Meadow is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannagan Meadow
      • Carlton Vista
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Carlton Vista is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton Vista
      • Strayhorse
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Strayhorse is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strayhorse
      • Balke Crossing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Balke Crossing is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balke Crossing
      • Whispering Pines
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Whispering Pines is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
      • Blue Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Blue Crossing is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Crossing
      • Blue
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Blue Vista
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Blue Vista is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Vista
      • Charlie Moore Place
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Charlie Moore Place is also located in Greenlee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlie Moore Place
  • Apache County
  • Catron County
    • County Website:   https://www.catroncounty.us/
    • County Seat for Catron:   Reserve (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sprucedale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sprucedale.
      • Aspen Mountain
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Aspen Mountain is located in Catron County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aspen Mountain
      • Luna
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Potato Patch
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Potato Patch is located in Catron County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Patch
      • Ruyle Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Ruyle Place is located in Catron County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruyle Place
      • Old Campbell Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Old Campbell Place is located in Catron County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Campbell Place
      • Rancho Grande Estates
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Rancho Grande Estates is located in Catron County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Grande Estates
      • Gribble Place
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Gribble Place is located in Catron County (NM)
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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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sprucedale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sprucedale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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