Nearest Communities to Portales,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Portales, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Portales:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Portales.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Portales is located in Roosevelt County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roosevelt County: Chaves, Curry, Lea, Quay, Bailey (TX) & Cochran (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Portales. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Roosevelt 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 Portales (which is Roosevelt 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 Portales
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Roosevelt County (where Portales resides)
- County Website: https://www.rooseveltcounty.com/
- County Seat for Roosevelt: Portales
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portales ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portales.
- Yerba
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Yerba is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yerba
- Tinsley Crossing
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tinsley Crossing is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinsley Crossing
- Midway
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Midway is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Bethel ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bethel is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
- Cameo ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cameo is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
- Eiland ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Eiland is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eiland
- Delphos ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Delphos is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphos
- Arch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Floyd
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Rogers
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Dora
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Red Lake ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Red Lake is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Upton ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Upton is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
- Inez ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Inez is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez
- Longs ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Longs is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longs
- Kermit ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Kermit is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
- Garrison ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Garrison is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison
- Pep ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Pep is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pep
- Causey
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Elida
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Ingram ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Ingram is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
- Richland ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Richland is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
- Benson ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Benson is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benson
- New Hope ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- New Hope is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Tornero
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tornero is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tornero
- Lingo ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lingo is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lingo
- Curry County
- County Website: https://www.currycountynm.gov/
- County Seat for Curry: Clovis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portales ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portales.
- Gallaher
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Gallaher is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallaher
- Grier ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Grier is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grier
- Portair
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Portair is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portair
- Clovis
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Vrain
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Ranchvale ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Ranchvale is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchvale
- Texico
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Melrose
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Pleasant Hill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Hill is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
- Cantara
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cantara is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- Claud
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Claud is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claud
- Bailey County
- County Website: https://www.co.bailey.tx.us/
- County Seat for Bailey: Muleshoe (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portales ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portales.
- Stegall
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Goodland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Goodland is located in Bailey County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
- Parmer County
- County Website: https://parmercounty.texas.gov/
- County Seat for Parmer: Farwell (TX)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portales ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portales.
- Farwell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lariat
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lariat is located in Parmer County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lariat
- Wilsey
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wilsey is located in Parmer County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsey
- Oklahoma Lane
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Oklahoma Lane is located in Parmer County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oklahoma Lane
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Portales) 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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