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Nearest Communities to River Mill,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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.

River Mill is located in Chaves County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaves County: DeBaca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Otero & Roosevelt.

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

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

  • Chaves County   (where River Mill resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.chavescounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Chaves:   Roswell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to River Mill   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from River Mill.
      • Missouri Plaza ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Missouri Plaza is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri Plaza
      • Center Mill
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Center Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Mill
      • Diamante Mill
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Diamante Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante Mill
      • Sherman Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Sherman Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Place
      • Highway Mill
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Highway Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway Mill
      • Mountain View
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Mountain View is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
      • South Spring Acres
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • South Spring Acres is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring Acres
      • Roswell
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Higgins Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Higgins Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Place
      • Loving Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Loving Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving Place
      • Fairbanks
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Fairbanks is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbanks
      • South Spring ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • South Spring is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Spring
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Blackdom ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Blackdom is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackdom
        • Midway
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Midway is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
        • Berrendo ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Berrendo is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrendo
        • East Grand Plains
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • East Grand Plains is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grand Plains
        • Chisum
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Chisum is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chisum
        • Dexter
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Lake Van ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Lake Van is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Van
        • Greenfield ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Greenfield is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
        • Melena
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Melena is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melena
        • Hagerman
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Mossman
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Mossman is located in Chaves County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossman
        • Lake Arthur
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Eddy County
  • Lincoln 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- River Mill) 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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