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Nearest Communities to Corrumpa,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Corrumpa is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Corrumpa. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Union County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Corrumpa (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 Corrumpa

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

  • Union County   (where Corrumpa resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Corrumpa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Corrumpa.
      • Guy
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Guy is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guy
      • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Willow Springs is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Cuates ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Cuates is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuates
      • Grenville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Grande
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Grande is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande
      • Mount Dora
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Des Moines
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Atencio
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Atencio is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atencio
      • Madison ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Madison is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison
      • Royce
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Royce is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
      • Seneca
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Folsom
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Old Moses
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Old Moses is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Moses
        • Emery Gap ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Emery Gap is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emery Gap
        • McNess Crossing
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • McNess Crossing is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNess Crossing
        • Moses
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Moses is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moses
        • Capulin
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Sofia
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Sofia is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sofia
        • Clayton
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Las Animas County
  • Cimarron County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Corrumpa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Corrumpa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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