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Nearest Communities to Pennington,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.<1>

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


Pennington is located in Union County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baca (CO), Las Animas (CO), Colfax, Harding, Quay, Cimarron (OK), Dallam (TX) & Hartley (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pennington. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Union 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 Pennington (which is Union 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 Pennington

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

  • Union County   (where Pennington resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pennington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pennington.
      • Beenham
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Beenham is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beenham
      • Garcia ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Garcia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia
      • Tate ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Tate is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tate
      • Sofia
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Sofia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sofia
      • Miera
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Miera is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miera
      • Mount Dora
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Gladstone
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Thomas
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Thomas is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
      • Grenville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Royce
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Royce is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
        • Bates
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Bates is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates
        • Grande
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Grande is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande
        • Clayton
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Sedan
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Hayden
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Hayden is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
  • Colfax County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Colfax:   Raton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pennington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pennington.
      • Farley ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Farley is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
      • Tafoya ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Tafoya is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
      • Palo Blanco ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Palo Blanco is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palo Blanco
  • Harding County
    • County Website:   https://www.hardingcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Harding:   Mosquero
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pennington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pennington.
      • Dehaven
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Dehaven is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dehaven
      • Yates ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Yates is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yates
      • Bueyeros
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Bueyeros is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bueyeros
      • Albert
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Sabino
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Sabino is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabino

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- Pennington) 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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