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Nearest Communities to Jones City,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Jones City.<1>

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

Jones City is located in Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jones City. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Jones City (which is Lea 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 Jones City

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

  • Lea County   (where Jones City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jones City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jones City.
      • Eunice
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Maypens
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Oil Center
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Warren is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
      • Nadine
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Nadine is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
      • Monument
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Teague
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
      • Hobbs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Arkansas Junction
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
      • Air Base City
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Air Base City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
      • Humble City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Humble City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
      • Lea
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Lea is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Jal
          (24 miles [38.6 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>
        • Knowles ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Knowles is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
        • Ochoa ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Ochoa is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
        • Baird Place
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Baird Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
        • Bennett ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Bennett is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Medlin Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
  • Otero County
  • Andrews County
  • Gaines 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jones City) 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.