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Nearest Communities to Elk,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Elk.<1>

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

Elk is located in Chaves County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaves County: DeBaca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Otero & Roosevelt.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elk. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Chaves 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 Elk (which is Chaves 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 Elk

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

  • Chaves County   (where Elk resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.chaves.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Chaves:   Roswell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
      • Old Longbotbam Place
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Longbotbam Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Longbotbam Place
        • Old Longbotbam Place is located in Chaves County
      • Dunken ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunken
        • Dunken is located in Chaves County
  • Lincoln County
  • Otero County
    • County Website:   www.co.otero.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Otero:   Alamogordo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
      • Mayhill
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Hortonville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hortonville
        • Hortonville is located in Otero County
      • Weed
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Sacramento
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wimsatt
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wimsatt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimsatt
        • Wimsatt is located in Otero County
      • Avis
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Avis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avis
        • Avis is located in Otero County
      • Silver Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Springs
        • Silver Springs is located in Otero County
      • Maxon
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maxon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
        • Maxon is located in Otero County
      • Chippeway Park
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chippeway Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippeway Park
        • Chippeway Park is located in Otero County
      • Pinon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Crisp
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crisp have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp
        • Crisp is located in Otero County
      • Whitetail
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitetail have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitetail
        • Whitetail is located in Otero County
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Cloudcroft
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Marcia
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marcia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcia
          • Marcia is located in Otero County
        • Mountain Park
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Park
          • Mountain Park is located in Otero County
        • Mescalero
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • High Rolls
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rolls
          • High Rolls is located in Otero County
        • Sunspot
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunspot
          • Sunspot is located in Otero County
        • Blazers Mill
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blazers Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazers Mill
          • Blazers Mill is located in Otero County
        • Timberon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Timberon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberon
          • Timberon is located in Otero County
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Timberon <4>

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Elk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Elk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9432, Longitude: -105.3344       In this case, the coordinates for Elk 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.




 

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