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Nearest Communities to Prairieview,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Prairieview is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairieview. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Lea County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Prairieview (which is Lea 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 Prairieview

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

  • Lea County   (where Prairieview resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairieview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairieview.
      • Hillburn City
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Hillburn City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
      • McDonald
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Gladiola ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Gladiola is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladiola
      • Bronco
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bronco is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
      • Tatum
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Lovington
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Peveler Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Peveler Place is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peveler Place
      • Knowles ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Knowles is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
      • Humble City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Humble City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
      • Air Base City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Air Base City is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
      • Hobbs
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Buckeye
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Buckeye is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
      • Crossroads
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Arkansas Junction
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
  • Gaines County
  • Yoakum County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.yoakum.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Yoakum:   Plains (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairieview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairieview.
      • Bronco
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bronco is located in Yoakum County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
      • Allred
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Allred is located in Yoakum County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allred
      • Plains
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Plains is located in Yoakum County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,655 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plains <4>
      • Sligo
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Sligo is located in Yoakum County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sligo

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prairieview) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prairieview, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.