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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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance 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:   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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
        • Jones City is located in Lea County
      • Monument
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Warren ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warren have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
        • Warren is located in Lea County
      • Nadine
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nadine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
        • Nadine is located in Lea County
      • Maypens
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
        • Maypens is located in Lea County
      • Arkansas Junction
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
      • Hobbs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Teague
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Teague have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
        • Teague is located in Lea County
      • Lea
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lea have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lea
        • Lea is located in Lea County
      • Air Base City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Air Base City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
        • Air Base City is located in Lea County
      • Humble City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humble City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
        • Humble City is located in Lea County
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Ochoa ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ochoa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
          • Ochoa is located in Lea County
        • Knowles ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knowles have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
          • Knowles is located in Lea County
        • Buckeye
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckeye have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
          • Buckeye is located in Lea County
        • Baird Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baird Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird Place
          • Baird Place is located in Lea County
        • Jal
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jal have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
          • Jal is located in Lea County
          • 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)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medlin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlin Place
          • Medlin Place is located in Lea County
        • Halfway
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halfway have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
          • Halfway is located in Lea County
        • Bennett ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bennett have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
          • Bennett is located in Lea County
        • Cotton Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Place
          • Cotton Place is located in Lea County
  • Otero County
  • Andrews County
  • Gaines County

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- Oil Center) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oil Center. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.4993, Longitude: -103.2613       In this case, the coordinates for Oil Center have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.




 

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