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Nearest Communities to Grafton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Grafton.<1>

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

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

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sierra County: Catron, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln, Luna, Otero & Socorro.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grafton. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Sierra 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 Grafton (which is Sierra 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 Grafton

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

  • Sierra County   (where Grafton resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sierraco.org/
    • County Seat for Sierra:   Truth or Consequences
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grafton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grafton.
      • Franks Place
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Franks Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franks Place
      • Santana Place
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Santana Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santana Place
      • Kline Place
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Kline Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline Place
      • Rouse Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Rouse Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rouse Place
      • Chloride ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Chloride is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chloride
      • Winston
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Winston is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
      • Jewkes Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Jewkes Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewkes Place
      • Chise
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Chise is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chise
      • Chaves Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Chaves Place is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaves Place
      • Monticello ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Monticello is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
      • La Petra
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • La Petra is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Petra
      • Placitas
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Placitas is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Hermosa ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • Hermosa is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
        • Garcia Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Garcia Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Place
        • Cuchillo
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Cuchillo is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchillo
        • Murphy Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Murphy Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy Place
        • Francisco Rascon Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Grant County
  • Socorro 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- Grafton) 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 Grafton, 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.