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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 doctors and 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.

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)
  • Lincoln County
  • Otero County
    • County Website:   https://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)
        • Hortonville is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hortonville
      • 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)
        • Wimsatt is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimsatt
      • Avis
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Avis is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avis
      • Silver Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Silver Springs is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Springs
      • Maxon
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Maxon is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
      • Chippeway Park
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Chippeway Park is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippeway Park
      • Pinon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Crisp
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Crisp is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp
      • Whitetail
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Whitetail is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitetail
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Cloudcroft
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Marcia
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Marcia is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcia
        • Mountain Park
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Mountain Park is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Park
        • Mescalero
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • High Rolls
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • High Rolls is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rolls
        • Sunspot
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Sunspot is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunspot
        • Blazers Mill
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Blazers Mill is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazers Mill
        • Timberon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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 from Point A (ie- Elk) 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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