Nearest Communities to Mesa,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Mesa, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Mesa:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 starting from Mesa.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Mesa 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 5 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mesa. Of these communities, 3 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 Mesa (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 Mesa
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chaves County (where Mesa resides)
- County Website: www.co.chaves.nm.us/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mesa ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mesa.
- McDermott Wells
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McDermott Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDermott Wells
- McDermott Wells is located in Chaves County
- Deering Place
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- 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
- DeBaca County
- County Seat for DeBaca: Fort Sumner
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mesa ...
- Dunlap ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunlap have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
- Dunlap is located in DeBaca County
- Lincoln County
- County Seat for Lincoln: Carrizozo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mesa ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mesa.
- Ramon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramon
- Ramon is located in Lincoln County
- Lon ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lon
- Lon is located in Lincoln 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- Mesa) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mesa. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9842, Longitude: -104.6778 In this case, the coordinates for Mesa 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. |