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 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.
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 Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Akela ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akela.
- Myndus
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Myndus is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myndus
- Cambray
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cambray is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambray
- Carne
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Carne is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carne
- Florida
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Florida is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
- Mirage
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Mirage is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
- Deming
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Sunshine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Sunshine is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Nutt ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Nutt is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutt
- Arsco
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Arsco is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arsco
- Peruhill
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Peruhill is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruhill
- Waterloo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Waterloo is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
- Tunis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Tunis is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
- Arena
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Arena is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Dona Ana County
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Akela ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akela.
- Dona
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Dona is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dona
- Chappel
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Chappel is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappel
- Aden ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Aden is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aden
- Pronto
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Pronto is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pronto
- Kenzin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Kenzin is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenzin
- Hockett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hockett is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockett
- Hersey Place
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hersey Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey Place
- Kimball Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Kimball Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Place
- Afton ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Afton is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Hatch
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' 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. 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 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. |
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