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Nearest Communities to Bread Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Bread Springs is located in McKinley County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 67 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bread Springs. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than McKinley 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 Bread Springs (which is McKinley 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 Bread Springs

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

  • McKinley County   (where Bread Springs resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
    • County Seat for McKinley:   Gallup
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bread Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bread Springs.
      • Sundance
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Sundance is also located in McKinley County
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      • Pinehaven
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Pinehaven is also located in McKinley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehaven
      • Red Rock
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • McGaffey ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • McGaffey was located in McKinley County
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      • Fort Wingate
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Rehoboth
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Zuni
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • McCune
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • McCune is also located in McKinley County
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      • Gallup
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Vanderwagen
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Merrill Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Merrill Place is also located in McKinley County
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      • Polich Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Polich Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Church Rock
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Wingate
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Wingate is also located in McKinley County
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        • Allison ‑ Historic
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Allison was located in McKinley County
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        • Lower Nutria
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Lower Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Upper Nutria
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Upper Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Basgal Place
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
          • Basgal Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Navajo Wingate Village
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
          • Navajo Wingate Village is also located in McKinley County
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        • Perea ‑ Historic
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Perea was located in McKinley County
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        • Gibson ‑ Historic
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Gibson was located in McKinley County
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        • Heaton ‑ Historic
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Heaton was located in McKinley County
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        • Weaver ‑ Historic
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Weaver was located in McKinley County
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        • Mentmore ‑ Historic
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Mentmore was located in McKinley County
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        • Twin Buttes
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Twin Buttes is also located in McKinley County
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        • Navarre Place
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Navarre Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Page
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
          • Page is also located in McKinley County
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        • Iyanbito
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
          • Iyanbito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Gamerco ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
          • Gamerco was located in McKinley County
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        • Grubisich Place
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • Grubisich Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Defiance
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Ciniza
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Ciniza is also located in McKinley County
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        • Sanchez Place
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Sanchez Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • South Guam
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • South Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • Coolidge ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Coolidge was located in McKinley County
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        • North Guam
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • North Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • Yah-ta-hey
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Yah-ta-hey is also located in McKinley County
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        • Rock Springs
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Chi Chil Tah
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Chi Chil Tah is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pinedale
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
          • Pinedale is also located in McKinley County
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        • Manuelito
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Manuelito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Continental Divide
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Gonzales
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Gonzales is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pescado
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Pescado is also located in McKinley County
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        • Ramah
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Twin Lakes
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Twin Lakes is also located in McKinley County
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        • Mariano Lake
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Mariano Lake is also located in McKinley County
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        • Black Rock
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Black Rock is also located in McKinley County
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        • Thoreau
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Zuni Pueblo
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Zuni Pueblo is also located in McKinley County
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        • Brimhall Nizhoni
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Brimhall Nizhoni is also located in McKinley County
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        • Coyote Canyon
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Coyote Canyon is also located in McKinley County
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        • Tse Bonito
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Tse Bonito is also located in McKinley County
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        • North Chaves
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • North Chaves is also located in McKinley County
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        • South Chaves
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • South Chaves is also located in McKinley County
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        • Mexican Springs
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Tekapo
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Tekapo is also located in McKinley County
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  • Cibola County
  • San Juan County
  • Apache County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bread Springs) 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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