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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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 starting 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: https://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)
- Halfway is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
- Oil Center
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Oil Center is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
- Arkansas Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
- Monument
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Buckeye
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Buckeye is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
- Cotton Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Cotton Place is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
- Eunice
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Jones City
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Jones City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
- Warren ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Warren is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
- Ochoa ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Ochoa is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
- Nadine
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Nadine is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
- Maypens
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Maypens is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Baird Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Baird Place is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
- Air Base City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Air Base City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
- Hobbs
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Humble City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Humble City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
- Maljamar
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Teague
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Teague is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
- Medlin Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Medlin Place is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
- Otero County
- County Website: https://co.otero.nm.us/
- County Seat for Otero: Alamogordo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Lea ...
- Johnson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Johnson is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
- Gaines County
- County Website: https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gaines: Seminole (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Lea ...
- State Line
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- State Line is located in Gaines County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lea) 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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