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Nearest Communities to Lake Valley,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Lake Valley 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 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lake Valley. Of these communities, 26 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 Lake Valley (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 Lake Valley

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

  • Sierra County   (where Lake Valley resides)
  • Dona Ana County
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://www.grantcountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Silver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake Valley.
      • Dwyer ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Dwyer is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
      • Sherman ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Sherman is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
      • San Juan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • San Juan is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Juan
      • San Lorenzo ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • San Lorenzo is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Lorenzo
      • Big Mill
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Big Mill is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Mill
      • Mimbres
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Faywood ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Faywood is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faywood
      • Santa Rita ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Santa Rita is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
      • Fierro
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Fierro is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fierro
      • Turnerville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Turnerville is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnerville
      • Union Hill
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Union Hill is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Hill
      • Wimsattville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Wimsattville is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimsattville
  • Luna County
    • County Website:   https://lunacountynm.us/
    • County Seat for Luna:   Deming
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake Valley.
      • Nutt ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Florida
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Florida is located in Luna County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
      • Old Town
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Old Town is located in Luna County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
      • Mirage
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Mirage is located in Luna County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
      • Carne
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Carne is located in Luna County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carne
      • Spalding
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Spalding is located in Luna County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spalding

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- Lake Valley) 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 Lake Valley, 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.
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