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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 hospitals and 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.

Please note 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.


Although our information shows that the community of Garcia is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Union County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baca (CO), Las Animas (CO), Colfax, Harding, Quay, Cimarron (OK), Dallam (TX) & Hartley (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garcia. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Union County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> 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 Union 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.

  • Union County   (where Garcia resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garcia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garcia.
      • Miera
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Miera is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miera
      • Beenham
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Beenham is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beenham
      • Tate ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Tate is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tate
      • Pennington
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Pennington is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Thomas
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Thomas is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
      • Bates
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Bates is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates
      • Hayden
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Hayden is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
      • Sedan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Mount Dora
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Royce
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Royce is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
        • Amistad
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Sofia
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Sofia is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sofia
        • Clayton
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Gladstone
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Grenville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Harding County
    • County Website:   https://www.hardingcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Harding:   Mosquero
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garcia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garcia.
      • Bueyeros
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Bueyeros is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bueyeros
      • Dehaven
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Dehaven is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dehaven
      • Yates ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Yates is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yates
      • Rosebud ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Rosebud is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud
      • Rosebud Farms
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Rosebud Farms is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud Farms
      • Albert
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Sabino
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Sabino is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabino

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- Garcia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Garcia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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