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Nearest Communities to Datil,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.


Datil is located in Catron County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Catron County: Apache (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Cibola, Grant, Sierra & Socorro.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Datil. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Catron 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 Datil (which is Catron 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 Datil

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

  • Catron County   (where Datil resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.catroncounty.us/
    • County Seat for Catron:   Reserve
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Datil   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Datil.
      • Jeffers Place
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Jeffers Place is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffers Place
      • Webster Place
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Webster Place is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Place
      • Gutierrezville
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Satathite Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Satathite Place is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satathite Place
      • Greens Gap
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Greens Gap is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens Gap
      • Box Bar Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Box Bar Place is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Bar Place
      • McCord Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • McCord Place is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord Place
      • Pie Town
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Tres Lagunas ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Tres Lagunas is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tres Lagunas
      • Lehew
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Lehew is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehew
      • New Horse Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • New Horse Springs is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Horse Springs
      • Old Horse Springs
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Old Horse Springs is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Horse Springs
      • Mangas ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Mangas is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mangas
      • Fullerton ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Fullerton is located in Catron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fullerton
  • Socorro County
    • County Website:   https://www.socorrocounty.net/
    • County Seat for Socorro:   Socorro
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Datil   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Datil.
      • Augustine ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Augustine is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augustine
      • Morine Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Morine Place is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morine Place
      • Monica ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Monica is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monica
      • Alamo
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Alamo is located in Socorro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
      • John Padilla Settlement
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

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- Datil) 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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