Nearest Communities to Placitas,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Placitas, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Placitas:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Placitas.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Placitas is located in Dona Ana County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dona Ana County: Luna, Otero, Sierra & El Paso (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Placitas. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Dona Ana 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 Placitas (which is Dona Ana 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 Placitas
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dona Ana County (where Placitas resides)
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placitas ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placitas.
- Rodey ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Rodey is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodey
- Hatch
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Salem
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Angostura
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Angostura is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angostura
- Rincon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Rincon is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rincon
- Garfield
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hockett
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hockett is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockett
- Grama
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Grama is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grama
- Hersey Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hersey Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey Place
- Tonuco
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Tonuco is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonuco
- Kimball Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kimball Place is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Place
- Radium Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
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- Fort Selden ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Selden is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Selden
- Leasburg ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Leasburg is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leasburg
- Hill
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hill is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
- Dona Ana
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Picacho
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Picacho is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Picacho
- San Ysidro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- San Ysidro is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Ysidro
- Luna County
- County Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placitas ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placitas.
- Nutt ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Nutt is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutt
- Florida
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Florida is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
- Sierra County
- County Website: https://www.sierraco.org/
- County Seat for Sierra: Truth or Consequences
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placitas ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placitas.
- Derry ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Derry is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derry
- Alivio
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Alivio is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alivio
- Arrey
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Upham
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Upham is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upham
- Oasis
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Oasis is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Caballo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Lake Valley ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Lake Valley is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
- Cutter ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Cutter is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
- Las Palomas
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Las Palomas is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Palomas
- Hillsboro
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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- Placitas) 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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