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Nearest Communities to Duran,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Duran.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Duran is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Torrance County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Torrance County: Bernalillo, Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Socorro & Valencia.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Duran. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Torrance 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 Duran (which is Torrance 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 Duran

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

  • Torrance County   (where Duran resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.torrancecountynm.org/
    • County Seat for Torrance:   Estancia
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Duran   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Duran.
      • Carnero
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Carnero is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnero
      • Torrance
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Torrance is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torrance
      • Encino
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Varney
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Varney is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varney
      • Negra
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Negra is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Negra
      • Pedernal
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Pedernal is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedernal
      • Cedarvale
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Dummoor
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Dummoor is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dummoor
      • Derramadero
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Derramadero is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derramadero
      • Culebra
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Culebra is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culebra
      • Progresso
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Progresso is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progresso
      • North Lucy
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • North Lucy is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lucy
      • Lucy
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Lucy is located in Torrance County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucy
  • Guadalupe County
    • County Website:   https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/
    • County Seat for Guadalupe:   Santa Rosa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Duran   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Duran.
      • Tejon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Tejon is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tejon
      • Vaughn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Tony
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Tony is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tony
      • Joffre
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Joffre is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joffre
      • Leoncito
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Leoncito is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leoncito
  • Lincoln 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- Duran) 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 Duran, 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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