RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of New Mexico >> Eddy County >> Artesia >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to Artesia,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Artesia, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Artesia:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Artesia.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Artesia is located in Eddy County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eddy County: Chaves, Lea, Otero, Culberson (TX), Loving (TX) & Reeves (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Artesia. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Eddy 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 Artesia (which is Eddy 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 Artesia

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Eddy County   (where Artesia resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   Carlsbad
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Artesia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Artesia.
      • Atoka
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Atoka is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka
      • Espuela
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Espuela is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Espuela
      • Old Horner Place
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Old Horner Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Horner Place
      • Riverside
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Riverside is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • Dayton ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Dayton is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton
      • Frontier Post
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Frontier Post is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Post
      • Illinois Camp
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Illinois Camp is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illinois Camp
      • Seven Rivers
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Seven Rivers is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Rivers
      • Cole Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Cole Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Place
      • Hope
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Hunter Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Hunter Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Place
      • Knowles Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Knowles Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles Place
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
  • Chaves County
    • County Website:   https://www.chavescounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Chaves:   Roswell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Artesia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Artesia.
      • Lake Arthur
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Mossman
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Mossman is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossman
      • Hagerman
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Greenfield ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Greenfield is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
      • Blackdom ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Blackdom is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackdom
      • Dexter
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Higgins Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Higgins Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Place
      • Lake Van ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Lake Van is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Van
      • Loving Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Loving Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving Place
      • South Mill
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • South Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mill
      • Chisum
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Chisum is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chisum

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Artesia) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.