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Nearest Communities to Medlin Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Medlin Place is located in Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Medlin Place. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Medlin Place (which is Lea 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 Medlin Place

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

  • Lea County   (where Medlin Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Medlin Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Medlin Place.
      • Baird Place
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Baird Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
      • Ochoa ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Ochoa is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
      • Andrews Place
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Andrews Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
      • Bennett ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Bennett is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
      • Jal
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Jal is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <3>
      • Teague
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
      • Cotton Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
      • Maypens
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Eunice
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Oil Center
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
      • Jones City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Lea
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Lea is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
  • Eddy County
  • Otero County
  • Loving County
  • Winkler County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.winkler.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Winkler:   Kermit (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Medlin Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Medlin Place.
      • Magwalt
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Magwalt is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magwalt
      • Vesrue
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Vesrue is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesrue
      • Cheyenne
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Cheyenne is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
      • Kermit
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Kermit is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,367 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kermit <3>
      • Wink
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Wink is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wink
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,014 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wink <3>

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- Medlin Place) 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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