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Nearest Communities to Nara Visa,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

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

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


Nara Visa is located in Quay County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Nara Visa. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Quay 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 Nara Visa (which is Quay 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 Nara Visa

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

  • Quay County   (where Nara Visa resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
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    • Nearest Communities to Nara Visa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nara Visa.
      • Obar
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Obar is located in Quay County
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      • Sand Springs
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Sand Springs is located in Quay County
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      • Bunk Clay Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Bunk Clay Place is located in Quay County
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      • Anniston ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Anniston is located in Quay County
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      • Rain Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Rain Place is located in Quay County
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      • Woods Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Woods Place is located in Quay County
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      • Logan
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cummings Place
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Glenrio ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Hendricks Place
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Hendricks Place is located in Quay County
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      • Porter
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Porter is located in Quay County
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  • Harding County
    • County Website:   https://www.hardingcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Harding:   Mosquero
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
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      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nara Visa.
      • Brown Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Brown Place is located in Harding County
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      • Bates Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Bates Place is located in Harding County
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      • Rosebud Farms
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Rosebud Farms is located in Harding County
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      • Rosebud ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Rosebud is located in Harding County
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  • Union County
  • Deaf Smith County
  • Hartley County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hartley.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hartley:   Channing (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Nara Visa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nara Visa.
      • Romero
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Romero is located in Hartley County (TX)
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      • Middle Water
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Middle Water is located in Hartley County (TX)
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      • King
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • King is located in Hartley County (TX)
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      • Twin Mill
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Twin Mill is located in Hartley County (TX)
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  • Oldham County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.oldham.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Oldham:   Vega (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Nara Visa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nara Visa.
      • Knoblaw
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Knoblaw is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Corner Windmill
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Partwood Crossing
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Partwood Crossing is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Strip Crossing
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Strip Crossing is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Old Farm Crossing
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Old Farm Crossing is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Wimberly Place
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Wimberly Place is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Boise ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Boise is located in Oldham County (TX)
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      • Gruhlkey
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Gruhlkey is located in Oldham County (TX)
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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 from Point A (ie- Nara Visa) 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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