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Nearest Communities to Ochoa,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Ochoa.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Ochoa is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ochoa. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Ochoa (which is Lea 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 Ochoa

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

  • Lea County   (where Ochoa resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ochoa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ochoa.
      • Baird Place
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Baird Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
      • Medlin Place
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
      • Andrews Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Andrews Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews Place
      • Cotton Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
      • Jal
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Jal is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <4>
      • Bennett ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Bennett is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
      • Teague
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
      • Maypens
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Lea
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Lea is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
      • Eunice
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Oil Center
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Oil Center is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Center
      • Jones City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Halfway
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Halfway is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
  • Eddy County
  • Otero County
  • Loving County
  • Winkler County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.winkler.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Winkler:   Kermit (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ochoa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ochoa.
      • Magwalt
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Magwalt is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magwalt
      • Vesrue
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Vesrue is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesrue
      • Cheyenne
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Cheyenne is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
      • Kermit
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Kermit is located in Winkler County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,367 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kermit <4>

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- Ochoa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Ochoa, 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.