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Nearest Communities to Salado,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Salado.<1>

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

Salado is located in DeBaca County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of DeBaca County: Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay & Roosevelt.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Salado. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than DeBaca 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 Salado (which is DeBaca 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 Salado

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

  • DeBaca County   (where Salado resides)
    • County Website:   https://debaca.nmgenweb.us/
    • County Seat for DeBaca:   Fort Sumner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salado   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salado.
      • Lake Sumner
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Lake Sumner is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Sumner
      • Guadalupe
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Guadalupe is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
      • Evanola
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Evanola is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evanola
      • Fort Sumner
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Ricardo ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Ricardo is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricardo
      • Agudo ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Agudo is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agudo
      • Yeso
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • La Lande ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • La Lande is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Lande
      • Largo
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Largo is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Largo
      • Buchanan ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Buchanan is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
      • Taiban
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Cardenas
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Cardenas is located in DeBaca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardenas
  • Guadalupe County
    • County Website:   https://www.guadalupecountynm.org/
    • County Seat for Guadalupe:   Santa Rosa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salado   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salado.
      • Los Ojitos
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Los Ojitos is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ojitos
      • Borica ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Borica is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borica
      • Alamo ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Alamo is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
      • Puerto De Luna
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Puerto De Luna is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto De Luna
      • Agua Negra ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Agua Negra is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Negra
      • Arabella
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Arabella is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arabella
      • Santa Rosa
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Los Tanos
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Los Tanos is located in Guadalupe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Tanos
      • Cuervo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Quay County
  • Roosevelt County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Salado) 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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