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Nearest Communities to Quay,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from Quay.<1>

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

Quay 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 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Quay. Of these communities, 5 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 Quay (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 Quay

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

  • Quay County   (where Quay resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Quay   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Quay.
      • Ragland
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Ragland is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
      • Jordan
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Jordan is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
      • Puerto ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Puerto is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto
      • Forrest
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Forrest is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest
      • Plain ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Plain is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
      • Norton
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Norton is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
      • Hargis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Hargis is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargis
      • Tucumcari
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Palomas
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Palomas is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palomas
      • McAlister
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Lesbia ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Lesbia is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
      • Montoya ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Montoya is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montoya
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • House
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Hassell
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Hassell is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hassell
        • Wheatland
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Wheatland is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
        • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Pleasant Valley is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
        • Hudson
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Hudson is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
        • San Jon
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Curry County
  • Guadalupe County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Quay) 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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