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Nearest Communities to La Jara,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

La Jara is located in Sandoval County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sandoval County: Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba & Santa Fe.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Jara. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Sandoval 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 La Jara (which is Sandoval 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 La Jara

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

  • Sandoval County   (where La Jara resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sandovalcountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Sandoval:   Bernalillo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to La Jara   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from La Jara.
      • Upper La Jara
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Upper La Jara is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper La Jara
      • La Placita
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • La Placita is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Placita
      • Garrison
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Garrison is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison
      • Cuba
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Regina
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Lagunitas
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Lagunitas is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagunitas
      • Copper City ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Copper City is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
      • Senorito ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Senorito is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Senorito
      • Deer Lake
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Deer Lake is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Lake
      • San Pablo
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • San Pablo is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pablo
      • San Miguel
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • San Miguel is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Miguel
      • Penistaja
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Penistaja is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penistaja
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • LaVentana
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • LaVentana is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaVentana
        • O'Neil Landing
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
          • O'Neil Landing is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Neil Landing
        • Seven Springs
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Porter
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Porter is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
        • Sulphur Springs
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Sulphur Springs is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Springs
        • Torreon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Torreon is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
        • Deer Creek Landing
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Deer Creek Landing is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek Landing
        • Jemez Springs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • San Luis
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • San Luis is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis
        • Gilman
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Gilman is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilman
        • Sierra de los Pinos
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Sierra de los Pinos is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sierra de los Pinos
        • Counselor
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • McKinley County
  • Rio Arriba County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- La Jara) 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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