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Nearest Communities to Porter,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Porter.<1>

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

Porter is located in Quay County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Porter. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Quay 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 Porter (which is Quay 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 Porter

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

  • Quay County   (where Porter resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Porter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Porter.
      • Cummings Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
      • San Jon
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Bard
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bard is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bard
      • Anniston ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Anniston is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anniston
      • Woods Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Woods Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
      • Logan
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Endee ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Endee is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endee
      • Hudson
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Hudson is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
      • Bunk Clay Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Bunk Clay Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunk Clay Place
      • Hendricks Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Hendricks Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Place
      • Rain Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Rain Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rain Place
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Glenrio ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Lesbia ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
          • Lesbia is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
        • Sand Springs
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Sand Springs is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
        • Allen ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Allen is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
        • Norton
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Norton is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
        • Wheatland
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Wheatland is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
        • Obar
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Obar is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obar
        • Puerto ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Puerto is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto
        • Tucumcari
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Hargis
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Hargis is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargis
        • Nara Visa
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Plain ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Plain is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
  • Curry County
  • Harding County
  • Deaf Smith County
  • Oldham County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Porter) 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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