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Nearest Communities to Chama,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village 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 from Chama.<1>

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

Chama is located in Rio Arriba County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rio Arriba County: Archuleta (CO), Conejos (CO), Los Alamos, Mora, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe & Taos.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Chama. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Rio Arriba 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 Chama (which is Rio Arriba 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 Chama

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

  • Rio Arriba County   (where Chama resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rio-arriba.org/
    • County Seat for Rio Arriba:   Tierra Amarilla
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chama   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chama.
      • Willow Creek
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Willow Creek is also located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
      • Lobato ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Brazos
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Los Ojos
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Biggs ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Biggs was located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biggs
      • Ensenada
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Ensenada is also located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensenada
      • Rutheron
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • La Puente ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • La Puente was located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Puente
      • Diamante ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Diamante was located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante
      • Tierra Amarilla ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Tierra Amarilla was located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Amarilla
      • Monero
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Amargo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Amargo is also located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargo
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Toltec
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Toltec is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
        • Crowther Cow Camp
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
          • Crowther Cow Camp is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowther Cow Camp
        • Lumberton
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Sublette
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Big Horn
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Big Horn is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Horn
        • El Vado
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • El Vado is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Vado
        • Las Nutrias
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Las Nutrias is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Nutrias
        • San Miguel
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • San Miguel is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Miguel
        • Dulce
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • San Antonio ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • San Antonio was located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio
        • Cebolla
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Navajo
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Lava ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Wright Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Wright Place is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright Place
        • Los Pinos
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Los Pinos is also located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Pinos
        • Alire ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Alire was located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alire
        • Canjilon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Archuleta County
  • Conejos County

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- Chama) 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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