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Nearest Communities to Cooper,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Cooper.<1>

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

Cooper is located in Lincoln County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Chaves, DeBaca, Guadalupe, Otero, Sierra, Socorro & Torrance.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cooper. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Cooper (which is Lincoln 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 Cooper

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Cooper resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Carrizozo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cooper   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cooper.
      • Largo
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Largo is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Largo
      • Ancho ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Ancho is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancho
      • Luna
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Luna is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luna
      • Coyote
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Coyote is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote
      • Jicarilla ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Jicarilla is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jicarilla
      • Tecolote
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Tecolote is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tecolote
      • Ramsdale Place
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Ramsdale Place is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsdale Place
      • White Oaks ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • White Oaks is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oaks
      • Reventon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Reventon is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reventon
      • Robsart
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Robsart is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robsart
      • Manchester ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Manchester is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
      • Gallinas
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Gallinas is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallinas
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Lovelace
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Lovelace is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelace
        • Carrizozo
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Vera Cruz ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Vera Cruz is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera Cruz
        • Corona
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Encinoso ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Encinoso is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encinoso
        • Nogal
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Polly
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Polly is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polly
        • Coalora ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Coalora is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalora
        • Capitan
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Socorro County
  • Torrance 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cooper) 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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