Nearest Communities to Salem,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Salem, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Salem:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Salem.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Salem is located in Dona Ana County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dona Ana County: Luna, Otero, Sierra & El Paso (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Salem. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Dona Ana 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 Salem (which is Dona Ana 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 Salem
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dona Ana County (where Salem resides)
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Salem ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Salem.
- Hatch
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hatch is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatch
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,678 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hatch <3>
- Placitas
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Placitas is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
- Garfield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Rodey ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Rodey was located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodey
- Angostura
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Angostura is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angostura
- Rincon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Rincon is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rincon
- Hockett
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hockett is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockett
- Grama
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Grama is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grama
- Tonuco
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tonuco is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonuco
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- Hersey Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hersey Place is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey Place
- Kimball Place
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Kimball Place is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Place
- Radium Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Selden ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Selden was located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Selden
- Leasburg ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Leasburg was located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leasburg
- Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hill is also located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
- Luna County
- County Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Salem ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Salem.
- Nutt ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Nutt was located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutt
- Florida
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Florida is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
- Sierra County
- County Website: https://www.sierraco.org/
- County Seat for Sierra: Truth or Consequences
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Salem ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Salem.
- Derry ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Derry was located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derry
- Arrey
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Alivio
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Alivio is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alivio
- Oasis
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Oasis is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Upham
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Upham is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upham
- Caballo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lake Valley ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Lake Valley was located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
- Las Palomas
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Las Palomas is located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Palomas
- Hillsboro
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cutter ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Cutter was located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
- Williamsburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Truth or Consequences
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Jornada ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Jornada was located in Sierra County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jornada
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Salem) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |