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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 from Air Base City.<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:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • 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)
        • Humble City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
      • Hobbs
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Knowles ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Knowles is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
      • Monument
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Nadine
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Nadine is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
      • Arkansas Junction
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Warren is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
      • Lovington
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Buckeye
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Buckeye is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
      • Oil Center
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
      • Jones City
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Hillburn City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Hillburn City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Prairieview ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Prairieview is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieview
        • Eunice
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • McDonald
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Lea
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Lea is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
        • Maypens
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Maypens is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
        • Peveler Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Peveler Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peveler Place
  • Gaines County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Gaines:   Seminole (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • 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)
        • State Line is located in Gaines County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
      • Higginbotham
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Higginbotham is located in Gaines County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higginbotham
      • Paynes Corner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Paynes Corner is located in Gaines County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynes Corner
      • Denver City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Yoakum County

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. 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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