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Nearest Communities to Adobe Ranch,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Adobe Ranch.<1>

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


Adobe Ranch is located in Socorro County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Socorro County: Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, Sierra, Torrance & Valencia.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Adobe Ranch. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Socorro 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 Adobe Ranch (which is Socorro 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 Adobe Ranch

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

  • Socorro County   (where Adobe Ranch resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.socorrocounty.net/
    • County Seat for Socorro:   Socorro
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Adobe Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Adobe Ranch.
      • Bingham
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Bingham is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bingham
      • Coane ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Coane is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coane
      • Carthage ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Carthage is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carthage
      • Old Carthage
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Old Carthage is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Carthage
      • Tokay ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Tokay is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tokay
      • Kinney Wells
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Kinney Wells is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinney Wells
      • Claunch
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • San Pedro ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • San Pedro is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
  • Lincoln County
    • County Website:   https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Carrizozo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Adobe Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Adobe Ranch.
      • Lovelace
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Lovelace is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelace
      • Coyote
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Coyote is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote
      • Roberson Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Roberson Place is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberson Place
      • Robsart
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Robsart is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robsart
      • Carrizozo
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Polly
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Polly is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polly
      • Largo
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Largo is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Largo
      • Oscura
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Oscura is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscura
      • Cooper
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Cooper is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
      • Cora Crew
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Cora Crew is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora Crew
      • Kimmons
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Kimmons is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimmons
  • Torrance County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Adobe Ranch) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.