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Nearest Communities to Four Wells,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Four Wells.<1>

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

Four Wells is located in Eddy County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eddy County: Chaves, Lea, Otero, Culberson (TX), Loving (TX) & Reeves (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Four Wells. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Eddy 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 Four Wells (which is Eddy 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 Four Wells

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

  • Eddy County   (where Four Wells resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   Carlsbad
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Four Wells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Four Wells.
      • Three Forks
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Three Forks is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
      • Queen ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Queen is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen
      • Knowles Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Knowles Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles Place
      • Four Forks
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Four Forks is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Forks
      • Barber Crossing
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Barber Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber Crossing
      • Seven Rivers
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Seven Rivers is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Rivers
      • Whites City
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • West Carlsbad
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • West Carlsbad is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Carlsbad
      • Carlsbad
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • San Jose
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • San Jose is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose
      • Frontier Post
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Frontier Post is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Post
      • Avalon
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Avalon is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avalon
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Hagerman Heights
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Hagerman Heights is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerman Heights
        • La Huerta
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • La Huerta is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Huerta
          • Former name for La Huerta:
          • Carlsbad North
        • Black River Village
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Black River Village is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black River Village
        • Cole Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Cole Place is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Place
        • Hope
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Otero County
  • Culberson County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Four Wells) 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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