Nearest Communities to Avalon,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Avalon, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Avalon:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Avalon.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Avalon 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 Avalon. Of these communities, 1 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 Avalon (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 Avalon
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Eddy County (where Avalon resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
- County Seat for Eddy: Carlsbad
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Avalon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Avalon.
- La Huerta
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- La Huerta is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Huerta
- Former name for La Huerta:
- Carlsbad North
- Carlsbad
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Hagerman Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Hagerman Heights is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerman Heights
- West Carlsbad
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- West Carlsbad is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Carlsbad
- San Jose
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- San Jose is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose
- Barber Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Barber Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber Crossing
- Otis ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Otis is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis
- Four Forks
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Four Forks is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Forks
- Seven Rivers
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Seven Rivers is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Rivers
- Illinois Camp
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Illinois Camp is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illinois Camp
- Frontier Post
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Frontier Post is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Post
- Loving
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Dayton ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Dayton is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton
- Harkey Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Harkey Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harkey Crossing
- Lookout ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Lookout is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
- Atoka
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Atoka is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka
- Black River Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Black River Village is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black River Village
- Lookout Crossing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Lookout Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Crossing
- Harroun Crossing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Harroun Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harroun Crossing
- Knowles Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Knowles Place is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles Place
- Malaga
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Riverside is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Whites City
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Artesia
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Loco Hills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Old Horner Place
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Old Horner Place is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Horner Place
- Pierce Canyon Crossing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Four Wells
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Four Wells is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Wells
- Lea County
- County Website: https://www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Avalon ...
- Halfway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Halfway is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Avalon) 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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