Nearest Communities to Cotton Place,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cotton Place, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cotton Place:
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.
Please note 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.
Cotton Place is located in Lea County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cotton Place. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Cotton Place (which is Lea 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 Cotton Place
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lea County (where Cotton Place resides)
- County Website: www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Lea County
- Nearest Communities to Cotton Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Place.
- Ochoa ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Baird Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baird Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
- Baird Place is located in Lea County
- Medlin Place
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medlin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
- Medlin Place is located in Lea County
- Andrews Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Andrews Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
- Andrews Place is located in Lea County
- Lea
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Halfway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Bennett ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Jal
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
- Jal is located in Lea County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <4>
- Teague
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Oil Center
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oil Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
- Oil Center is located in Lea County
- Eddy County
- County Website: www.caverns.net/ecourt/
- County Seat for Eddy: Carlsbad
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Eddy County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Eddy County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Eddy County
- Nearest Communities to Cotton Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Place.
- Ross Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ross Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Place
- Ross Place is located in Eddy County
- Pierce Canyon Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierce Canyon Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Canyon Crossing
- Pierce Canyon Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Rock House Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock House Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock House Crossing
- Rock House Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Harroun Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harroun Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harroun Crossing
- Harroun Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Malaga
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malaga
- Malaga is located in Eddy County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Malaga <4>
- Red Bluff
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Loving
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loving have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving
- Loving is located in Eddy County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,372 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loving <4>
- Lookout Crossing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lookout Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Crossing
- Lookout Crossing is located in Eddy County
- Lookout ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Otis ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Otero County
- County Website: www.co.otero.nm.us/
- County Seat for Otero: Alamogordo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- Nearest Communities to Cotton Place ...
- Reeves County
- County Seat for Reeves: Pecos (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Reeves County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Reeves County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Reeves County
- Nearest Communities to Cotton Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Place.
- Robinson Arms Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Arms Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Arms Landing
- Robinson Arms Landing is located in Reeves County (TX)
- Red Bluff
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Angeles
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cotton Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cotton Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2248, Longitude: -103.6633 In this case, the coordinates for Cotton Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |