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Nearest Communities to Lea,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Lea.<1>

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

Lea 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 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lea. Of these communities, 2 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 Lea (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 Lea

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

  • Lea County   (where Lea resides)
    • County Website:   www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lea   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lea.
      • Halfway
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halfway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
        • Halfway is located in Lea County
      • Oil Center
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oil Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
      • Arkansas Junction
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
      • Monument
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckeye
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckeye have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
        • Buckeye is located in Lea County
      • Cotton Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
        • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
      • Eunice
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Jones City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warren have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
        • Warren is located in Lea County
      • Ochoa ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ochoa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
        • Ochoa is located in Lea County
      • Nadine
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nadine have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
        • Nadine is located in Lea County
      • Maypens
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Baird Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baird Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
          • Baird Place is located in Lea County
        • Air Base City
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Air Base City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
          • Air Base City is located in Lea County
        • Hobbs
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Humble City
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humble City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
          • Humble City is located in Lea County
        • Maljamar
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Teague
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Teague have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
          • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Medlin Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medlin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
          • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
  • Otero County
  • Gaines County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lea) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lea. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.5223, Longitude: -103.5333       In this case, the coordinates for Lea have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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