Nearest Communities to Monica,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Monica, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Monica:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Monica.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Monica is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Socorro County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Socorro County: Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, Sierra, Torrance & Valencia.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Monica. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Socorro 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 Monica (which is Socorro 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 Monica
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Socorro County (where Monica resides)
- County Seat for Socorro: Socorro
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- Nearest Communities to Monica ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Monica.
- Morine Place
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morine Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morine Place
- Morine Place is located in Socorro County
- Rosedale ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Mill Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mill Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Place
- Mill Place is located in Socorro County
- Augustine ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Kelly ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - Magdalena
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magdalena
- Magdalena is located in Socorro County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 869 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Magdalena <5>
- Dusty
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Cherryville ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherryville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherryville
- Cherryville is located in Socorro County
- John Padilla Settlement
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for John Padilla Settlement have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Padilla Settlement
- John Padilla Settlement is located in Socorro County
- Catron County
- County Seat for Catron: Reserve
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- Nearest Communities to Monica ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Monica.
- Satathite Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Satathite Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satathite Place
- Satathite Place is located in Catron County
- Jeffers Place
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jeffers Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffers Place
- Jeffers Place is located in Catron County
- Datil
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Datil
- Datil is located in Catron County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Datil <5>
- Gutierrezville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gutierrezville
- Gutierrezville is located in Catron County
- Webster Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Webster Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Place
- Webster Place is located in Catron 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Monica) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monica. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9573, Longitude: -107.4953 In this case, the coordinates for Monica 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 Monica, 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. |