RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of New Mexico >> Sierra County >> Chise >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to Chise,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Chise.<1>

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


Chise is located in Sierra County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sierra County: Catron, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln, Luna, Otero & Socorro.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Chise. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Sierra 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 Chise (which is Sierra 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 Chise

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

  • Sierra County   (where Chise resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sierraco.org/
    • County Seat for Sierra:   Truth or Consequences
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chise   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chise.
      • Winston
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Winston is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
      • Chloride ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Chloride is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chloride
      • Garcia Place
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Garcia Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Place
      • Jewkes Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Jewkes Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewkes Place
      • Chaves Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Chaves Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaves Place
      • Placitas
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Placitas is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
      • Hermosa ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Hermosa is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
      • Rouse Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Rouse Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rouse Place
      • Monticello ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Monticello is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
      • Cuchillo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Cuchillo is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchillo
      • Grafton ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Grafton is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grafton
      • La Petra
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • La Petra is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Petra
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Franks Place
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Franks Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franks Place
        • Santana Place
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Santana Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santana Place
        • Francisco Rascon Place
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Kline Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Kline Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline Place
        • Murphy Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Murphy Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy Place
        • Williamsburg
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Elephant Butte
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Hot Springs Landing
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Hot Springs Landing is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs Landing
        • Rock Canyon
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Rock Canyon is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Canyon
        • Las Palomas
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Las Palomas is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Palomas
        • Truth or Consequences
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Elephant Butte Estates
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Hillsboro
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Kingston ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Kingston is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
        • Caballo
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Oasis
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Oasis is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
  • Grant County
  • Socorro County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chise) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.