Nearest Communities to Air Base City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Air Base City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Air Base City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
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.
Air Base City is located in Lea County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Air Base City. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Air Base City (which is Lea 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 Air Base City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lea County (where Air Base City resides)
- County Website: www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- Nearest Communities to Air Base City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Air Base City.
- Humble City
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humble City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
- Humble City is located in Lea County
- Hobbs
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
- Hobbs is located in Lea County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 39,339 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hobbs <4>
- Knowles ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast) - Monument
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monument
- Monument is located in Lea County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Monument <4>
- Nadine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Arkansas Junction
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
- Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
- Warren ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Lovington
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lovington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovington
- Lovington is located in Lea County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 11,474 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovington <4>
- Buckeye
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Oil Center
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oil Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
- Oil Center is located in Lea County
- Jones City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
- Jones City is located in Lea County
- Hillburn City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillburn City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
- Hillburn City is located in Lea County
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- Prairieview ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairieview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieview
- Prairieview is located in Lea County
- Eunice
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice
- Eunice is located in Lea County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,049 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eunice <4>
- McDonald
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
- McDonald is located in Lea County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McDonald <4>
- Lea
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Maypens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
- Maypens is located in Lea County
- Peveler Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peveler Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peveler Place
- Peveler Place is located in Lea County
- Prairieview ‑ Historic
- Gaines County
- County Seat for Gaines: Seminole (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Gaines County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Gaines County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Gaines County
- Nearest Communities to Air Base City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Air Base City.
- State Line
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for State Line have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
- State Line is located in Gaines County (TX)
- Higginbotham
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Higginbotham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higginbotham
- Higginbotham is located in Gaines County (TX)
- Paynes Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paynes Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynes Corner
- Paynes Corner is located in Gaines County (TX)
- Denver City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver City
- Denver City is located in Gaines County (TX)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,883 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Denver City <4>
- Yoakum County
- County Seat for Yoakum: Plains (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Yoakum County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Yoakum County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Yoakum County
- Nearest Communities to Air Base City ...
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 from Point A (ie- Air Base City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Air Base City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7698, Longitude: -103.1952 In this case, the coordinates for Air Base City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |