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Nearest Communities to Penistaja,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Penistaja is located in Sandoval County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sandoval County: Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba & Santa Fe.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Penistaja. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Sandoval 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 Penistaja (which is Sandoval 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 Penistaja

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

  • Sandoval County   (where Penistaja resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sandovalcountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Sandoval:   Bernalillo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Penistaja   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Penistaja.
      • Torreon
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Torreon is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
      • Lagunitas
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Lagunitas is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagunitas
      • Cuba
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Cuba is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cuba <3>
      • La Placita
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • La Placita is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Placita
      • La Jara
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Copper City ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Copper City is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
      • Garrison
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Garrison is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison
      • San Miguel
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • San Miguel is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Miguel
      • San Pablo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • San Pablo is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pablo
      • Senorito ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Senorito is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Senorito
      • LaVentana
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • LaVentana is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaVentana
      • Upper La Jara
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Upper La Jara is located in Sandoval County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper La Jara
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Deer Lake
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Deer Lake is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Lake
        • Regina
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Counselor
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • San Luis
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • San Luis is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis
        • O'Neil Landing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • O'Neil Landing is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Neil Landing
        • Cabezon ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Cabezon is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabezon
        • Porter
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Porter is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
        • Seven Springs
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Seven Springs is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Springs
        • Guadalupe
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Guadalupe is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
        • Deer Creek Landing
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Deer Creek Landing is located in Sandoval County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek Landing
  • McKinley County
  • Rio Arriba County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Penistaja) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.