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

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.<1>

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

Rock Springs is located in McKinley County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 60 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rock Springs. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than McKinley 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 Springs (which is McKinley 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 Springs

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

  • McKinley County   (where Rock Springs resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
    • County Seat for McKinley:   Gallup
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rock Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rock Springs.
      • Yah-ta-hey
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Yah-ta-hey is also located in McKinley County
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      • Gamerco ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Gamerco was located in McKinley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamerco
      • Gibson ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Gibson was located in McKinley County
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      • Heaton ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Heaton was located in McKinley County
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      • Mentmore ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Mentmore was located in McKinley County
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      • Allison ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Allison was located in McKinley County
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      • Weaver ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Weaver was located in McKinley County
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      • Twin Lakes
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Twin Lakes is also located in McKinley County
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      • Twin Buttes
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Twin Buttes is also located in McKinley County
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      • Gallup
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Defiance
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Red Rock
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Continue List   (38 more) ...
        • Rehoboth
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Mexican Springs
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Zuni
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Tse Bonito
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
          • Tse Bonito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Church Rock
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Navajo Wingate Village
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
          • Navajo Wingate Village is also located in McKinley County
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        • McCune
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • McCune is also located in McKinley County
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        • Sundance
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Sundance is also located in McKinley County
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        • Brimhall Nizhoni
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Brimhall Nizhoni is also located in McKinley County
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        • Manuelito
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Manuelito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Coyote Canyon
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Coyote Canyon is also located in McKinley County
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        • Wingate
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Wingate is also located in McKinley County
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        • Tohatchi
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Bread Springs
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Perea ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Perea was located in McKinley County
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        • Fort Wingate
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Iyanbito
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Iyanbito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pinedale
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Pinedale is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pinehaven
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Pinehaven is also located in McKinley County
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        • Navajo
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Vanderwagen
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • McGaffey ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • McGaffey was located in McKinley County
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        • Ciniza
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Ciniza is also located in McKinley County
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        • Buffalo Springs
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Buffalo Springs is also located in McKinley County
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        • Chi Chil Tah
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Chi Chil Tah is also located in McKinley County
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        • Polich Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Polich Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • North Guam
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • North Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • South Guam
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • South Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • Basgal Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Basgal Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Merrill Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Merrill Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Lower Nutria
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Lower Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Upper Nutria
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Upper Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Mariano Lake
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Mariano Lake is also located in McKinley County
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        • Coolidge ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Coolidge was located in McKinley County
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        • Navarre Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Navarre Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Standing Rock
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Standing Rock is also located in McKinley County
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        • Page
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Page is also located in McKinley County
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        • Grubisich Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Grubisich Place is also located in McKinley County
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  • Apache 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 Springs) 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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