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Nearest Communities to Gallegos,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 from Gallegos.<1>

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

Gallegos is located in Harding County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harding County: Colfax, Mora, Quay, San Miguel & Union.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gallegos. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Harding 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 Gallegos (which is Harding 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 Gallegos

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

  • Harding County   (where Gallegos resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.hardingcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Harding:   Mosquero
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gallegos   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gallegos.
      • Brown Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Brown Place is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Place
      • Mosquero
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Bates Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Bates Place is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates Place
      • Rosebud Farms
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Rosebud Farms is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud Farms
      • Rosebud ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Rosebud is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud
      • Albert
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Bueyeros
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Bueyeros is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bueyeros
      • Solano
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sabino
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Sabino is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabino
  • Quay County
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gallegos   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gallegos.
      • Hendricks Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Hendricks Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Place
      • Logan
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Sand Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Sand Springs is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Bunk Clay Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Bunk Clay Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunk Clay Place
      • Hudson
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Hudson is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
      • Woods Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Woods Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
      • Anniston ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Anniston is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anniston
      • Obar
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Obar is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obar
      • Cummings Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
      • Tucumcari
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • San Miguel County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Gallegos) 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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