Nearest Communities to Florida,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Florida, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Florida:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Florida.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Florida is located in Luna County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Luna County: Dona Ana, Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Florida. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Luna 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 Florida (which is Luna 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 Florida
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Luna County (where Florida resides)
- County Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Florida ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Florida.
- Mirage
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mirage is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
- Carne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Carne is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carne
- Myndus
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Myndus is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myndus
- Nutt ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Nutt is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutt
- Deming
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Akela ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Akela is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akela
- Arsco
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Arsco is located in Luna County
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- Peruhill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Peruhill is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruhill
- Cambray
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cambray is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambray
- Old Town
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Old Town is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Sunshine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Sunshine is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
- Tunis
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Tunis is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
- Spalding
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Spalding is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spalding
- Waterloo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Waterloo is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
- Dona Ana County
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Florida ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Florida.
- Hockett
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hockett is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockett
- Dona
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Dona is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dona
- Chappel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Chappel is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappel
- Hatch
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hersey Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Hersey Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey Place
- Garfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Placitas
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Placitas is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
- Salem
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rodey ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Rodey is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodey
- Grant County
- County Website: https://www.grantcountynm.gov/
- County Seat for Grant: Silver City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Florida ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Florida.
- Dwyer ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Dwyer is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
- Faywood ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Faywood is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faywood
- Big Mill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Big Mill is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Mill
- Sherman ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sherman is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
- San Juan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- San Juan is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Juan
- Sierra County
- County Website: https://www.sierraco.org/
- County Seat for Sierra: Truth or Consequences
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Florida ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Florida.
- Lake Valley ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Lake Valley is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
- Derry ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Derry is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derry
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- Florida) 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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