Nearest Communities to Akela,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Akela, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Akela:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Akela.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Akela is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Luna County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Luna County: Dona Ana, Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Akela. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Luna 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 Akela (which is Luna 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 Akela
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Luna County (where Akela resides)
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Luna County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Luna County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Luna County
- Nearest Communities to Akela ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akela.
- Myndus
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Cambray
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Carne
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west) - Florida
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest) - Mirage
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west) - Deming
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deming
- Deming is located in Luna County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,983 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deming <5>
- Sunshine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Sunshine is located in Luna County
- Nutt ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutt
- Nutt is located in Luna County
- Arsco
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Peruhill
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Waterloo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Tunis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Arena
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Dona Ana County
- County Website: www.co.dona-ana.nm.us/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Dona Ana County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Dona Ana County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Dona Ana County
- Nearest Communities to Akela ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akela.
- Dona
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Chappel
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Aden ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east) - Pronto
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Kenzin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Hockett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Hersey Place
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hersey Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey Place
- Hersey Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Kimball Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kimball Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Place
- Kimball Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Afton ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Hatch
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hatch have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatch
- Hatch is located in Dona Ana County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,678 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hatch <5>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Akela) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Akela. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2459, Longitude: -107.4056 In this case, the coordinates for Akela have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Akela, 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |