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Nearest Communities to Bates,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bates.<1>

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

Bates is located in Union County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baca (CO), Las Animas (CO), Colfax, Harding, Quay, Cimarron (OK), Dallam (TX) & Hartley (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bates. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Union 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 Bates (which is Union 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 Bates

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

  • Union County   (where Bates resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bates.
      • Thomas
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Thomas is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
      • Clayton
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Sedan
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Tate ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Tate is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tate
      • Royce
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Royce is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
      • Garcia ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Garcia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia
      • Mount Dora
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Hayden
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Hayden is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
      • Seneca
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Pennington
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Pennington is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Miera
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Miera is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miera
      • Beenham
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Beenham is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beenham
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Amistad
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Old Moses
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Old Moses is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Moses
        • McNess Crossing
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • McNess Crossing is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNess Crossing
        • Moses
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Moses is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moses
        • Grenville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Cimarron County
  • Dallam County
    • County Website:   https://www.dallam.org/
    • County Seat for Dallam:   Dalhart (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bates.
      • Texline
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Corlena
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Corlena is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corlena
      • Perico ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Perico is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perico
      • Windy Hill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Windy Hill is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Hill
      • Bunker Hill
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Bunker Hill is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
      • Thompson Grove
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Thompson Grove is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Grove
      • Buffalo Springs
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Buffalo Springs is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
      • Ware
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Ware is located in Dallam County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ware

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 from Point A (ie- Bates) 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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