Nearest Communities to Manchester,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Manchester, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Manchester:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Manchester.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Manchester is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lincoln County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Chaves, DeBaca, Guadalupe, Otero, Sierra, Socorro & Torrance.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Manchester. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Manchester (which is Lincoln 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 Manchester
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Manchester resides)
- County Seat for Lincoln: Carrizozo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- Nearest Communities to Manchester ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Manchester.
- White Oaks ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Oaks have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oaks
- White Oaks is located in Lincoln County
- Robsart
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Ramsdale Place
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramsdale Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsdale Place
- Ramsdale Place is located in Lincoln County
- Vera Cruz ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Reventon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast) - Coyote
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Carrizozo
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizozo
- Carrizozo is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 950 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carrizozo <5>
- Nogal
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nogal
- Nogal is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nogal <5>
- Jicarilla ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast) - Largo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Coalora ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Capitan
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Capitan have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitan
- Capitan is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,457 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Capitan <5>
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- Encinoso ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Ancho ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Cooper
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Polly
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - Lovelace
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Luna
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Bonito
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonito
- Bonito is located in Lincoln County
- Angus ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Fort Stanton ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Stanton
- Fort Stanton is located in Lincoln County
- Villa Madonna
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Villa Madonna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Madonna
- Villa Madonna is located in Lincoln County
- Tecolote
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Sierra Vista
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sierra Vista
- Sierra Vista is located in Lincoln County
- Sun Valley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Sun Valley is located in Lincoln County
- Kimmons
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest) - Alto
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
- Alto is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alto <5>
- Double Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Double Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Crossing
- Double Crossing is located in Lincoln County
- Cora Crew
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest) - Alpine Cellars Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alpine Cellars Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine Cellars Village
- Alpine Cellars Village is located in Lincoln County
- Oscura
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest) - Ruidoso
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruidoso
- Ruidoso is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,061 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ruidoso <5>
- Ponderosa Heights
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ponderosa Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa Heights
- Ponderosa Heights is located in Lincoln County
- Baca ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Lincoln
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
- Lincoln is located in Lincoln County
- Hollywood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollywood
- Hollywood is located in Lincoln County
- Ruidoso Downs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ruidoso Downs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruidoso Downs
- Ruidoso Downs is located in Lincoln County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,631 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ruidoso Downs <5>
- Glencoe
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
- Glencoe is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glencoe <5>
- Roberson Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roberson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberson Place
- Roberson Place is located in Lincoln County
- Pine Lodge
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Lodge have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Lodge
- Pine Lodge is located in Lincoln County
- Gallinas
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Encinoso ‑ Historic
- Otero County
- County Website: www.co.otero.nm.us/
- County Seat for Otero: Alamogordo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Otero County
- Nearest Communities to Manchester ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Manchester.
- Apache
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Carrizo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizo
- Carrizo is located in Otero 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Manchester) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Manchester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7115, Longitude: -105.7536 In this case, the coordinates for Manchester have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Manchester, 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |