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Nearest Communities to Mountain View,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Mountain View.<1>

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


Mountain View 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mountain View. Of these communities, 2 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 Mountain View (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 Mountain View

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

  • Chaves County   (where Mountain View resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.chavescounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Chaves:   Roswell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mountain View   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain View.
      • South Spring Acres
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • South Spring Acres is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring Acres
      • South Spring ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • South Spring is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring
      • Fairbanks
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Fairbanks is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbanks
      • Roswell
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • East Grand Plains
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • East Grand Plains is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grand Plains
      • Midway
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Berrendo ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Berrendo is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrendo
      • Sherman Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Sherman Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Place
      • Chisum
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Chisum is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chisum
      • Loving Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Loving Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving Place
      • Higgins Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Higgins Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Place
      • Blackdom ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Blackdom is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackdom
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Dexter
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Lake Van ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
          • Lake Van is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Van
        • Missouri Plaza ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
          • Missouri Plaza is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri Plaza
        • River Mill
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
          • River Mill is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Mill
        • Melena
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Melena is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melena
        • Greenfield ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Greenfield is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
        • Center Mill
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
          • Center Mill is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Mill
        • Diamante Mill
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Diamante Mill is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante Mill
        • Highway Mill
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Highway Mill is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway Mill
        • Hagerman
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Acme ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Acme is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
        • Frazier ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Frazier is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazier
        • Mossman
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Mossman is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossman
        • South Mill
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • South Mill is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mill
        • Lake Arthur
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Campbell
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Campbell is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbell
        • McDermott Wells
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • McDermott Wells is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDermott Wells
  • Eddy County
  • Lincoln County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Mountain View) 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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