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Nearest Communities to Baird Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 Baird Place.<1>

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

Baird Place is located in Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Baird Place. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Baird Place (which is Lea 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 Baird Place

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

  • Lea County   (where Baird Place resides)
    • County Website:   www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baird Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baird Place.
      • Ochoa ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ochoa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
        • Ochoa is located in Lea County
      • Medlin Place
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medlin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
        • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
      • Andrews Place
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Andrews Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
        • Andrews Place is located in Lea County
      • Jal
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
        • Jal is located in Lea County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <4>
      • Bennett ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bennett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Bennett is located in Lea County
      • Cotton Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
        • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
      • Teague
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Teague have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
        • Teague is located in Lea County
      • Maypens
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
      • Eunice
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Lea
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lea have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
        • Lea is located in Lea County
      • Oil Center
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oil Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
      • Jones City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
  • Eddy County
  • Otero County
  • Loving County
    • County Seat for Loving:   Mentone (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baird Place   ...
      • Woody ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Woody. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woody
        • Woody is located in Loving County (TX)
  • Winkler County
    • County Website:   www.co.winkler.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Winkler:   Kermit (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baird Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baird Place.
      • Magwalt
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magwalt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magwalt
        • Magwalt is located in Winkler County (TX)
      • Vesrue
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vesrue have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesrue
        • Vesrue is located in Winkler County (TX)
      • Cheyenne
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
        • Cheyenne is located in Winkler County (TX)
      • Kermit
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
        • Kermit is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,367 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kermit <4>

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- Baird Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Baird Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.1610, Longitude: -103.4280       In this case, the coordinates for Baird Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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