Nearest Communities to Piedra de la Aguila,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Piedra de la Aguila, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Piedra de la Aguila:
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.
Please note 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.
Piedra de la Aguila is located in McKinley County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Piedra de la Aguila. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than McKinley 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 Piedra de la Aguila (which is McKinley 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 Piedra de la Aguila
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- McKinley County (where Piedra de la Aguila resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
- County Seat for McKinley: Gallup
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Piedra de la Aguila ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Piedra de la Aguila.
- Voght Place
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Voght Place is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voght Place
- Leon ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Leon is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon
- Hospah
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hospah is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hospah
- Ambrosia Lake
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Ambrosia Lake is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ambrosia Lake
- El Dado
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- El Dado is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Dado
- Whitehorse
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Whitehorse is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehorse
- Seven Lakes
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Seven Lakes is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Lakes
- Prewitt
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Smith Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Crownpoint
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Eagle Nest
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Eagle Nest is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Nest
- North Chaves
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- North Chaves is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Chaves
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- South Chaves
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- South Chaves is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Chaves
- Pueblo Pintado
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Pueblo Pintado is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pueblo Pintado
- Tinian
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tinian is located in McKinley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinian
- Thoreau
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cibola County
- County Website: https://www.cibolacountynm.com/
- County Seat for Cibola: Grants
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Piedra de la Aguila ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Piedra de la Aguila.
- San Mateo
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- San Mateo is located in Cibola County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Mateo
- Bluewater
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bluewater is located in Cibola County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
- Toltec
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Toltec is located in Cibola County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
- Casa Fria
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Casa Fria is located in Cibola County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Fria
- Milan
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Grants
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Grants is located in Cibola County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grants
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,835 people
- Former name for Grants:
- Grants Station
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grants <3>
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Piedra de la Aguila) 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. |