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Nearest Communities to Oil Center,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Oil Center.<1>

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

Oil Center is located in 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 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oil Center. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Oil Center (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 Oil Center

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

  • Lea County   (where Oil Center resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oil Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oil Center.
      • Eunice
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jones City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Monument
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Warren is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
      • Nadine
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Nadine is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
      • Maypens
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Arkansas Junction
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
      • Hobbs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Teague
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Teague is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
      • Lea
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Lea is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
      • Air Base City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Air Base City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
      • Humble City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Humble City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Ochoa ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Ochoa is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
        • Knowles ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Knowles is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
        • Buckeye
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Buckeye is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
        • Baird Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Baird Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
        • Jal
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • 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 <3>
        • Medlin Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
        • Halfway
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Halfway is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
        • Bennett ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Bennett is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Cotton Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
  • Otero County
  • Andrews County
  • Gaines 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- Oil Center) 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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