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Nearest Communities to Mule Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Mule Creek.<1>

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

Mule Creek is located in Grant County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grant County: Greenlee (AZ), Catron, Hidalgo, Luna & Sierra.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mule Creek. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Grant 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 Mule Creek (which is Grant 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 Mule Creek

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

  • Grant County   (where Mule Creek resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.grantcountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Silver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mule Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mule Creek.
      • Harden Cienega
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Harden Cienega is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harden Cienega
      • Sid Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Sid Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sid Place
      • Buckhorn
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Chapman Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Chapman Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Place
      • Estes Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Estes Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estes Place
      • Moore Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Moore Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Place
      • Steeplerock ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Steeplerock is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steeplerock
      • East Camp ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • East Camp is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Camp
      • Gunn Place ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Gunn Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn Place
      • Matthew Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Matthew Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthew Place
      • McKelvey Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • McKelvey Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKelvey Place
      • Hext Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Hext Place is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hext Place
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  • Catron County
  • Hidalgo County
  • Greenlee County
    • County Website:   https://greenlee.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Greenlee:   Clifton (AZ)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mule Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mule Creek.
      • Charlie Moore Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Charlie Moore Place is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlie Moore Place
      • Three Way
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Three Way is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Way
      • Guthrie
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Clifton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • York
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • East Plantsite
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • East Plantsite is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Plantsite
      • Morenci
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Apache Grove
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Apache Grove is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache Grove
      • Plantsite
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Plantsite is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantsite
      • Stargo
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Stargo is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stargo
      • Sheldon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Metcalf ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Aragon Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Aragon Place is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aragon Place
        • Maques Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Maques Place is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maques Place
        • Granville
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Granville is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
        • Duncan
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Fox
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Fox is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox
        • Spur Cross
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Spur Cross is located in Greenlee County (AZ)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spur Cross

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- Mule Creek) 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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