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Nearest Communities to McAlister,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 McAlister.<1>

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

McAlister is located in Quay County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McAlister. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Quay 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 McAlister (which is Quay 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 McAlister

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

  • Quay County   (where McAlister resides)
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McAlister   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McAlister.
      • House
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jordan
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jordan have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
        • Jordan is located in Quay County
      • Ragland
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
        • Ragland is located in Quay County
      • Forrest
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forrest have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest
        • Forrest is located in Quay County
      • Hassell
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hassell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hassell
        • Hassell is located in Quay County
      • Quay
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quay have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quay
        • Quay is located in Quay County
      • Plain ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plain have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
        • Plain is located in Quay County
      • Puerto ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Puerto have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto
        • Puerto is located in Quay County
      • Norton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
        • Norton is located in Quay County
      • Wheatland
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheatland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
        • Wheatland is located in Quay County
  • Curry County
    • County Website:   www.currycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Curry:   Clovis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McAlister   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McAlister.
      • Weber City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weber City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
        • Weber City is located in Curry County
      • Field
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Field have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field
        • Field is located in Curry County
      • Cantara
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cantara have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
        • Cantara is located in Curry County
      • Melrose
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melrose have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
        • Melrose is located in Curry County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 622 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Melrose <3>
      • Saint Vrain
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Grady
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Grier ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grier have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grier
        • Grier is located in Curry County
      • Ranchvale ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ranchvale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchvale
        • Ranchvale is located in Curry County
  • DeBaca County
    • County Seat for DeBaca:   Fort Sumner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McAlister   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McAlister.
      • Taiban
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • La Lande ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Lande have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Lande
        • La Lande is located in DeBaca County
      • Fort Sumner
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Guadalupe County
  • Roosevelt County
    • County Website:   www.rooseveltcounty.com/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Portales
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McAlister   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McAlister.
      • Krider ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Krider have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krider
        • Krider is located in Roosevelt County
      • Tolar ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolar
        • Tolar is located in Roosevelt 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- McAlister) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McAlister. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6925, Longitude: -103.7765    
<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.
<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.




 

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