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Nearest Communities to Gibson,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Gibson.<1>

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

Gibson is located in Hidalgo County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hidalgo County: Cochise (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Grant & Luna.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gibson. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Hidalgo 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 Gibson (which is Hidalgo 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 Gibson

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

  • Hidalgo County   (where Gibson resides)
    • County Website:   https://hidalgocounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hidalgo:   Lordsburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gibson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gibson.
      • Lovett
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
        • Lovett is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovett
      • Lower Lovett Place
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Lower Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Lovett Place
      • Upper Lovett Place
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Upper Lovett Place is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Lovett Place
      • Mace
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Mace is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mace
      • Eaton Place
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Eaton Place is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton Place
      • Old Isaacs Place
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Old Isaacs Place is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Isaacs Place
      • Abe Yarbrough
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Abe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abe Yarbrough
      • Birchfield
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Birchfield is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchfield
      • Joe Yarbrough
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Joe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joe Yarbrough
      • Middle Wells
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Middle Wells is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Wells
      • Rock Cabin
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Rock Cabin is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Cabin
      • Bene Dunagan
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bene Dunagan is located in Hidalgo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bene Dunagan
      • Continue List   (18 more) ...
        • Eakins
          (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
          • Eakins is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eakins
        • Spears
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Spears is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears
        • Double Adobes
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
          • Double Adobes is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Adobes
        • Mouser Place
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
          • Mouser Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouser Place
        • Gibson Place
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Gibson Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson Place
        • Jim Robinson
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Jim Robinson is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jim Robinson
        • Yarbrough Place
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
          • Yarbrough Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarbrough Place
        • Upshaw Place
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • Upshaw Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upshaw Place
        • Rodeo
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Cloverdale ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Deer Creek Wells
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Deer Creek Wells is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek Wells
        • Animas
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Antelope
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Antelope is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
        • Deer
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Deer is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer
        • High Lonesome Wells
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • High Lonesome Wells is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Lonesome Wells
        • Windmill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Playas ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Playas is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Playas
        • White Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • White Place is located in Hidalgo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Place
  • Socorro County
  • Cochise County

Footnotes ...

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