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Nearest Communities to Illinois Camp,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Illinois Camp is located in Eddy County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eddy County: Chaves, Lea, Otero, Culberson (TX), Loving (TX) & Reeves (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Illinois Camp. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Eddy 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 Illinois Camp (which is Eddy 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 Illinois Camp

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

  • Eddy County   (where Illinois Camp resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   Carlsbad
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Illinois Camp   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Illinois Camp.
      • Riverside
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Riverside is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • Dayton ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Dayton is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton
      • Frontier Post
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Frontier Post is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Post
      • Atoka
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Atoka is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atoka
      • Artesia
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Avalon
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Avalon is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avalon
      • Seven Rivers
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Seven Rivers is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Rivers
      • Loco Hills
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Espuela
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Espuela is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Espuela
      • La Huerta
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • La Huerta is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Huerta
        • Former name for La Huerta:
        • Carlsbad North
      • Barber Crossing
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Barber Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber Crossing
      • Old Horner Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Old Horner Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Horner Place
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Carlsbad
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • West Carlsbad
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
          • West Carlsbad is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Carlsbad
        • Hagerman Heights
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Hagerman Heights is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerman Heights
        • San Jose
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • San Jose is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose
        • Four Forks
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Four Forks is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Forks
        • Knowles Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Knowles Place is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles Place
        • Otis ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Otis is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis
        • Loving
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Hope
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Chaves County
  • Lea 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Illinois Camp) 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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