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Nearest Communities to Lee Acres,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Lee Acres.<1>

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

Lee Acres is located in San Juan County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Archuleta (CO), La Plata (CO), Montezuma (CO), McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lee Acres. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than San Juan 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 Lee Acres (which is San Juan 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 Lee Acres

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

  • San Juan County   (where Lee Acres resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sjcounty.net/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Aztec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lee Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lee Acres.
      • Bloomfield
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Flora Vista
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Aztec
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Aztec is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztec
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,332 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aztec <3>
      • Spencerville
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Spencerville is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencerville
      • Farmington
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Napi HQ
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Napi HQ is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napi HQ
      • Blanco
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Huerfano
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Huerfano is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huerfano
      • Inca
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Inca is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
      • Alcatraz ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Alcatraz is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcatraz
      • Fivemile Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Fivemile Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile Crossing
      • Turley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Turley is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turley
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Upper Fruitland
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
          • Upper Fruitland is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Fruitland
        • Laplata
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Laplata is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laplata
        • Cedar Hill
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
          • Cedar Hill is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
        • La Plata
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Kirtland
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Ojo Amarillo
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Ojo Amarillo is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo Amarillo
        • Archuleta
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Archuleta is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archuleta
        • Fruitland
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Riverside
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Riverside is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
        • Nenahnezad
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Nenahnezad is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenahnezad
        • Cottonwood
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Cottonwood is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Navajo Dam
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Lucero Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Lucero Place is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucero Place
        • Garcia Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Garcia Place is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Place
  • Rio Arriba County
  • La Plata 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- Lee Acres) 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.