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Nearest Communities to Rock Canyon,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Rock Canyon is located in Sierra County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sierra County: Catron, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln, Luna, Otero & Socorro.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rock Canyon. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Sierra 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 Rock Canyon (which is Sierra 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 Rock Canyon

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

  • Sierra County   (where Rock Canyon resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sierraco.org/
    • County Seat for Sierra:   Truth or Consequences
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rock Canyon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rock Canyon.
      • Hot Springs Landing
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Hot Springs Landing is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs Landing
      • Elephant Butte Estates
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Elephant Butte
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Truth or Consequences
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Cuchillo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Williamsburg
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Engle ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jornada ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Jornada is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jornada
      • Las Palomas
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Crocker
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Crocker is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocker
      • Cutter ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Placitas
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Placitas is located in Sierra County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
      • Continue List   (18 more) ...
        • Garcia Place
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Garcia Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Place
        • La Petra
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • La Petra is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Petra
        • Monticello ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • Monticello is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
        • Caballo
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Chaves Place
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Chaves Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaves Place
        • Oasis
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Oasis is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
        • Chise
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Chise is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chise
        • Jewkes Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Jewkes Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewkes Place
        • Arrey
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Upham
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Upham is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upham
        • Winston
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Winston is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
        • Rouse Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Rouse Place is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rouse Place
        • Alivio
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Alivio is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alivio
        • Francisco Rascon Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Chloride ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Hillsboro
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Derry ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Derry is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derry
        • Hermosa ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Hermosa is located in Sierra County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
  • Socorro 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rock Canyon) 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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