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Nearest Communities to Orogrande,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 starting from Orogrande.<1>

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

Orogrande is located in Otero County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Otero County: Chaves, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Sierra, Culberson (TX) & Hudspeth (TX).

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

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

  • Otero County   (where Orogrande resides)
    • County Website:   https://co.otero.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Otero:   Alamogordo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Orogrande   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Orogrande.
      • Turquoise
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Turquoise is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turquoise
      • Elwood
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Elwood is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
      • Paxton Crossing
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Paxton Crossing is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton Crossing
      • Old Wright Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Old Wright Place is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Wright Place
      • Escondida Crossing
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Escondida Crossing is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escondida Crossing
      • Alvarado
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Alvarado is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvarado
      • Dunes
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Dunes is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunes
      • Dog Canyon Estates
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Dog Canyon Estates is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dog Canyon Estates
      • Point of Sands
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Point of Sands is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Sands
      • Valmont ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Valmont is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valmont
      • Timberon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Newman
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Newman is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newman
      • Boles Acres
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Dona Ana County
  • El Paso 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- Orogrande) 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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