Nearest Communities to Caprock,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Caprock, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Caprock:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Caprock 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 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Caprock. Of these communities, 11 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 Caprock (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 Caprock
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lea County (where Caprock resides)
- County Website: www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- Nearest Communities to Caprock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Caprock.
- Crossroads
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
- Crossroads is located in Lea County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crossroads <3>
- Peveler Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peveler Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peveler Place
- Peveler Place is located in Lea County
- Tatum
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tatum
- Tatum is located in Lea County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 829 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tatum <3>
- McDonald
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
- McDonald is located in Lea County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McDonald <3>
- Chaves County
- County Website: www.co.chaves.nm.us/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- Nearest Communities to Caprock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Caprock.
- Vest Wells
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vest Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vest Wells
- Vest Wells is located in Chaves County
- Corner Well
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corner Well have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Well
- Corner Well is located in Chaves County
- Lone Wolf
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Robertson Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robertson Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertson Wells
- Robertson Wells is located in Chaves County
- Beatty Wells
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Wells
- Beatty Wells is located in Chaves County
- Boaz ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Elkins ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - South Mill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mill
- South Mill is located in Chaves County
- Roosevelt County
- County Website: www.rooseveltcounty.com/
- County Seat for Roosevelt: Portales
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Nearest Communities to Caprock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Caprock.
- Eagle Hill ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Hill
- Eagle Hill is located in Roosevelt County
- Home Place Well
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Home Place Well have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place Well
- Home Place Well is located in Roosevelt County
- Milnesand
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milnesand
- Milnesand is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Milnesand <3>
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Caprock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Caprock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3921, Longitude: -103.7125 In this case, the coordinates for Caprock 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |