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Nearest Communities to Capulin,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Capulin 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Capulin. Of these communities, 21 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 Capulin (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 Capulin

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

  • Union County   (where Capulin resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Capulin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Capulin.
      • Des Moines
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Folsom
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Madison ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Madison is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison
      • Grande
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Grande is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande
      • Emery Gap ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Emery Gap is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emery Gap
      • Sofia
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Sofia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sofia
      • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Willow Springs is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Grenville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Corrumpa ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Corrumpa is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corrumpa
      • Gladstone
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Colfax County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Colfax:   Raton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Capulin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Capulin.
      • Kiowa ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Palo Blanco ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Palo Blanco is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palo Blanco
      • Tafoya ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Tafoya is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
      • Chico ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Chico is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
      • Tinaja
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Tinaja is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
      • Yankee ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Yankee is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee
      • Carisbrook
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Carisbrook is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carisbrook
      • Sugarite ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Sugarite is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarite
      • Farley ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Farley is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Dillon
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Dillon is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillon
        • Hebron
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Hebron is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
        • Raton
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Gardiner ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Gardiner is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardiner
        • Schomberg
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Schomberg is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schomberg
        • Keota
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Keota is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota
  • Las Animas County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Capulin) 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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