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Nearest Communities to Red Bluff,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Red Bluff.<1>

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

Red Bluff is located in Eddy County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eddy County: Chaves, Lea, Otero, Culberson (TX), Loving (TX) & Reeves (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Bluff. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Eddy 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 Red Bluff (which is Eddy 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 Red Bluff

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

  • Eddy County   (where Red Bluff resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   Carlsbad
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Bluff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Bluff.
      • Rock House Crossing
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Rock House Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock House Crossing
      • Pierce Canyon Crossing
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Malaga
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Harroun Crossing
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Harroun Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harroun Crossing
      • Lookout ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Lookout is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
      • Lookout Crossing
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Lookout Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Crossing
      • Harkey Crossing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Harkey Crossing is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harkey Crossing
      • Loving
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Black River Village
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Black River Village is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black River Village
      • Ross Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Ross Place is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Place
      • Otis ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Otis is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis
      • Whites City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Hagerman Heights
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Hagerman Heights is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerman Heights
        • San Jose
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • San Jose is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose
        • Carlsbad
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • La Huerta
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • La Huerta is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Huerta
          • Former name for La Huerta:
          • Carlsbad North
        • West Carlsbad
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • West Carlsbad is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Carlsbad
        • Four Forks
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Four Forks is located in Eddy County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Forks
  • Lea County
  • Culberson County
  • Reeves County
    • County Website:   https://www.reevescounty.org/
    • County Seat for Reeves:   Pecos (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Bluff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Bluff.
      • Robinson Arms Landing
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Robinson Arms Landing is located in Reeves County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Arms Landing
      • Angeles
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Angeles is located in Reeves County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angeles
      • Red Bluff
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Red Bluff is located in Reeves County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
      • Orla ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Orla is located in Reeves County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orla
      • Riverton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverton is located in Reeves County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverton

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- Red Bluff) 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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