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Nearest Communities to Garcia,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.

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

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

Garcia is located in Socorro County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Socorro County: Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, Sierra, Torrance & Valencia.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garcia. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Socorro 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 Garcia (which is Socorro 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 Garcia

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

  • Socorro County   (where Garcia resides)
  • Hidalgo County
    • County Website:   https://hidalgocounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hidalgo:   Lordsburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garcia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garcia.
      • Cloverdale ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Deer Creek Wells
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Deer Creek Wells is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek Wells
      • Deer
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Deer is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer
      • High Lonesome Wells
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • High Lonesome Wells is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Lonesome Wells
      • Antelope Wells
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Antelope Wells is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Wells
      • Birchfield
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Birchfield is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchfield
      • Mace
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Mace is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mace
      • Abe Yarbrough
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Abe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abe Yarbrough
      • Gibson
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Lovett
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Lovett is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovett
      • Double Adobes
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Double Adobes is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Adobes
      • Lower Lovett Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Lower Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Lovett Place
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Upper Lovett Place
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Upper Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Lovett Place
        • Joe Yarbrough
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
          • Joe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joe Yarbrough
        • Middle Wells
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
          • Middle Wells is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Wells
        • Eaton Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Eaton Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton Place
        • Old Isaacs Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Old Isaacs Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Isaacs Place
        • Yarbrough Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Yarbrough Place is located in Hidalgo County
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        • Alamo Hueco
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Bene Dunagan
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Bene Dunagan is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bene Dunagan
        • Eakins
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Eakins is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eakins
        • Rock Cabin
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Rock Cabin is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Cabin
        • Upshaw Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Upshaw Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upshaw Place
        • Spears
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Spears is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears
        • Gibson Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Gibson Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson Place
        • Jim Robinson
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Jim Robinson is located in Hidalgo County
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  • Cochise 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Garcia) 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.