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Nearest Communities to Johnson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Johnson.<1>

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

Johnson is primarily located in Otero County. A portion of Johnson extends into Lea County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Otero County: Chaves, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Sierra, Culberson (TX) & Hudspeth (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Johnson. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Otero 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 Johnson (which is Otero 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 Johnson

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

  • Lea County
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Johnson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Johnson.
      • Teague
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
      • Maypens
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Eunice
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Jones City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Jal
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Jal is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <3>
      • Oil Center
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
      • Bennett ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Bennett is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
      • Baird Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Baird Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
      • Medlin Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
      • Ochoa ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ochoa is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Warren is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
      • Monument
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Nadine
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Nadine is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
        • Andrews Place
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Andrews Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
        • Lea
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Lea is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
        • Hobbs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Arkansas Junction
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
        • Cotton Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
  • Andrews County
  • Gaines County
  • Winkler 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- Johnson) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.