Nearest Communities to Ancho,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ancho, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ancho:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Ancho.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Ancho is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lincoln County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Chaves, DeBaca, Guadalupe, Otero, Sierra, Socorro & Torrance.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ancho. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Ancho (which is Lincoln 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 Ancho
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Ancho resides)
- County Seat for Lincoln: Carrizozo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- Nearest Communities to Ancho ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ancho.
- Cooper
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west) - Luna
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Largo
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Jicarilla ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast) - Tecolote
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast) - Ramsdale Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramsdale Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsdale Place
- Ramsdale Place is located in Lincoln County
- Coyote
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest) - Reventon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - White Oaks ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Oaks have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oaks
- White Oaks is located in Lincoln County
- Robsart
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Gallinas
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Manchester ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manchester have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Manchester is located in Lincoln County
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Lovelace
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Carrizozo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizozo
- Carrizozo is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 950 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carrizozo <5>
- Encinoso ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Corona
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corona have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corona
- Corona is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 167 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Corona <5>
- Vera Cruz ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south) - Coalora ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Nogal
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nogal
- Nogal is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nogal <5>
- Polly
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Capitan
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Capitan have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitan
- Capitan is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,457 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Capitan <5>
- Lovelace
- Socorro County
- County Seat for Socorro: Socorro
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- Nearest Communities to Ancho ...
- Claunch
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claunch
- Claunch is located in Socorro County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Claunch <5>
- Claunch
- Torrance County
- County Website: www.torrancecountynm.org/
- County Seat for Torrance: Estancia
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Torrance County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Torrance County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Torrance County
- Nearest Communities to Ancho ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ancho.
- Varney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Cedarvale
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarvale
- Cedarvale is located in Torrance County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cedarvale <5>
- Torrance
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast) - Gran Quivira
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gran Quivira have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gran Quivira
- Gran Quivira is located in 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 from Point A (ie- Ancho) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ancho. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9378, Longitude: -105.7397 In this case, the coordinates for Ancho 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 Ancho, 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. |