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Nearest Communities to Benson,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Benson is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Roosevelt County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roosevelt County: Chaves, Curry, Lea, Quay, Bailey (TX) & Cochran (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Benson. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Roosevelt 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 Benson (which is Roosevelt 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 Benson

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

  • Roosevelt County   (where Benson resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcounty.com/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Portales
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Benson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Benson.
      • Ingram ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Ingram is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
      • Upton ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Upton is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
      • Floyd
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Floyd is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Floyd <4>
      • Krider ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Krider is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krider
      • Kermit ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Kermit is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
      • Bethel ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Bethel is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
      • Tolar ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Tolar is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolar
      • Delphos ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Delphos is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphos
      • Elida
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Elida is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elida
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elida <4>
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Tinsley Crossing
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Tinsley Crossing is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinsley Crossing
        • Tornero
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Tornero is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tornero
        • Yerba
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Yerba is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yerba
        • Kenna
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
        • Portales
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Red Lake ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Red Lake is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake
  • Chaves County
  • Curry County
  • DeBaca 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Benson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Benson, 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.