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Nearest Communities to Palo Blanco,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

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

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Colfax County: Costilla (CO), Las Animas (CO), Harding, Mora, Taos & Union.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Palo Blanco. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Colfax 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 Palo Blanco (which is Colfax 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 Palo Blanco

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

  • Colfax County   (where Palo Blanco resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Colfax:   Raton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Palo Blanco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Palo Blanco.
      • Tafoya ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Tafoya is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
      • Chico ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Chico is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
      • Kiowa ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Kiowa is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Farley ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Farley is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
      • Abbott
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Abbott is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott
      • Tinaja
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Tinaja is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
      • Schomberg
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Schomberg is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schomberg
      • Taylor Springs ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Taylor Springs is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Springs
      • Maxwell
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Hebron
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Hebron is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
      • French
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • French is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French
      • Toril
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Toril is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toril
  • Harding County
  • Union County
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Palo Blanco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Palo Blanco.
      • Sofia
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Sofia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sofia
      • Gladstone
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Capulin
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Grande
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Grande is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande
      • Des Moines
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Grenville
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Folsom
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Pennington
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Pennington is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Madison ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Madison is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Palo Blanco) 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 Palo Blanco, 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.
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