Nearest Communities to Ruidoso Downs,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ruidoso Downs, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ruidoso Downs:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northwest 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 north.
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 north 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 Ruidoso Downs.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ruidoso Downs is located in Lincoln County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Chaves, DeBaca, Guadalupe, Otero, Sierra, Socorro & Torrance.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ruidoso Downs. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Ruidoso Downs (which is Lincoln 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 Ruidoso Downs
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Ruidoso Downs resides)
- County Website: https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/
- County Seat for Lincoln: Carrizozo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ruidoso Downs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruidoso Downs.
- Hollywood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Hollywood is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollywood
- Ruidoso
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ponderosa Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Ponderosa Heights is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa Heights
- Alpine Cellars Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Alto
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sierra Vista
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sierra Vista is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sierra Vista
- Sun Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sun Valley is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Angus ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Angus is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angus
- Glencoe
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Villa Madonna
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Villa Madonna is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Madonna
- Bonito
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Bonito is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonito
- Fort Stanton ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Fort Stanton is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Stanton
- Continue List (25 more) ...
- Capitan
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- San Patricio
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- San Patricio is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Patricio
- Coalora ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Coalora is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalora
- Double Crossing
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Double Crossing is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Crossing
- Lincoln
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lincoln is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
- Nogal
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hondo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Vera Cruz ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Vera Cruz is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera Cruz
- Baca ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Baca is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baca
- Tinnie
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Escondido ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Escondido is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escondido
- Encinoso ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Encinoso is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encinoso
- Picacho
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Carrizozo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Kimmons
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Kimmons is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimmons
- Polly
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Polly is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polly
- Cora Crew
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Cora Crew is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora Crew
- Manchester ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Manchester is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Bluewater
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Lodge
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Lodge is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Lodge
- Oscura
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Oscura is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscura
- White Oaks ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- White Oaks is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oaks
- Riverside
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Riverside is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Sunset
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Sunset is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
- Arabela
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Arabela is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arabela
- Chaves County
- County Website: https://www.chavescounty.gov/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ruidoso Downs ...
- Elk
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Elk is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk
- Otero County
- County Website: https://co.otero.nm.us/
- County Seat for Otero: Alamogordo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ruidoso Downs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruidoso Downs.
- Whitetail
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Whitetail is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitetail
- Carrizo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Carrizo is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizo
- Mescalero
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Silver Springs
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Silver Springs is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Springs
- Blazers Mill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Blazers Mill is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazers Mill
- Apache
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Apache is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache
- Bent
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Wimsatt
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Wimsatt is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimsatt
- Cloudcroft
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Salinas
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Salinas is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salinas
- Three Rivers
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Three Rivers is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
- Chippeway Park
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Chippeway Park is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippeway Park
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- Hortonville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Hortonville is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hortonville
- High Rolls
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- High Rolls is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rolls
- Mountain Park
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain Park is located in Otero County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Park
- Tularosa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
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- Ruidoso Downs) 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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