Nearest Communities to Malpais,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Malpais, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Malpais:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Malpais.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Malpais is located in Dona Ana County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dona Ana County: Luna, Otero, Sierra & El Paso (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Malpais. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Dona Ana 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 Malpais (which is Dona Ana 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 Malpais
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dona Ana County (where Malpais resides)
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Malpais ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Malpais.
- Potrillo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Potrillo is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potrillo
- Noria
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Noria is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noria
- Aden ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Aden is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aden
- Kenzin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Kenzin is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenzin
- Pronto
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Pronto is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pronto
- Afton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Afton is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Rutter
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Rutter is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutter
- Chappel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Chappel is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappel
- Dona
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Dona is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dona
- Lanark ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lanark is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanark
- Vevay
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Vevay is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vevay
- Luna County
- County Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Malpais ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Malpais.
- Arena
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Arena is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Border City ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Border City is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
- Columbus
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Cambray
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Cambray is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambray
- Mimbres
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Mimbres is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mimbres
- Waterloo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Waterloo is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
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- Malpais) 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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