Nearest Communities to McDermott Wells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to McDermott Wells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for McDermott Wells:
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 from McDermott Wells.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
McDermott Wells is located in Chaves County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaves County: DeBaca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Otero & Roosevelt.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McDermott Wells. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Chaves 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 McDermott Wells (which is Chaves 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 McDermott Wells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chaves County (where McDermott Wells resides)
- County Website: www.co.chaves.nm.us/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Chaves County
- Nearest Communities to McDermott Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McDermott Wells.
- Frazier ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Acme ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast) - Deering Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deering Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deering Place
- Deering Place is located in Chaves County
- Melena
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Campbell
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast) - Mesa
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Berrendo ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Elkins ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Olive
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Roswell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
- Roswell is located in Chaves County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 47,596 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roswell <4>
- Boaz ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Fairbanks
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Beatty Wells
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Wells
- Beatty Wells is located in Chaves County
- South Spring Acres
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Spring Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring Acres
- South Spring Acres is located in Chaves County
- Robertson Wells
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robertson Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertson Wells
- Robertson Wells is located in Chaves County
- East Grand Plains
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Grand Plains have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grand Plains
- East Grand Plains is located in Chaves County
- Mountain View
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain View have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
- Mountain View is located in Chaves County
- South Spring ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring
- South Spring is located in Chaves County
- Beatty Wells
- DeBaca County
- County Seat for DeBaca: Fort Sumner
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- DeBaca County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- DeBaca County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- DeBaca County
- Nearest Communities to McDermott Wells ...
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- McDermott Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McDermott Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7723, Longitude: -104.4541 In this case, the coordinates for McDermott Wells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |