Nearest Communities to Fairbanks,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fairbanks, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fairbanks:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Fairbanks.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fairbanks 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 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fairbanks. Of these communities, 1 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 Fairbanks (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 Fairbanks
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chaves County (where Fairbanks resides)
- County Website: https://www.chavescounty.gov/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fairbanks ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fairbanks.
- South Spring Acres
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- South Spring Acres is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring Acres
- South Spring ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- South Spring is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring
- Mountain View
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain View is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
- Roswell
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- East Grand Plains
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Grand Plains is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grand Plains
- Midway
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Midway is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Berrendo ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Berrendo is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrendo
- Chisum
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Chisum is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chisum
- Sherman Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sherman Place is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Place
- Loving Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Loving Place is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving Place
- Higgins Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Higgins Place is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Place
- Dexter
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Blackdom ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Blackdom is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackdom
- Lake Van ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Van is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Van
- Melena
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Melena is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melena
- Greenfield ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Greenfield is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
- Missouri Plaza ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Missouri Plaza is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri Plaza
- River Mill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- River Mill is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Mill
- Center Mill
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Center Mill is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Mill
- Acme ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Acme is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
- Hagerman
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Frazier ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Frazier is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazier
- Diamante Mill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Diamante Mill is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante Mill
- Highway Mill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Highway Mill is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway Mill
- Mossman
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Mossman is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossman
- South Mill
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- South Mill is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mill
- Campbell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Campbell is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbell
- Lake Arthur
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- McDermott Wells
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- McDermott Wells is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDermott Wells
- Eddy County
- County Website: https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
- County Seat for Eddy: Carlsbad
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fairbanks ...
- Espuela
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Espuela is located in Eddy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Espuela
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- Fairbanks) 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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