Nearest Communities to Salt Lake,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Salt Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Salt Lake:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Salt Lake.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Salt Lake is located in Catron County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Catron County: Apache (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Cibola, Grant, Sierra & Socorro.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Salt Lake. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Catron 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 Salt Lake (which is Catron 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 Salt Lake
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Catron County (where Salt Lake resides)
- County Seat for Catron: Reserve
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Catron County
- Nearest Communities to Salt Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Salt Lake.
- Red Hill ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Quemado
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quemado
- Quemado is located in Catron County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quemado <4>
- Manuelito Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manuelito Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manuelito Place
- Manuelito Place is located in Catron County
- Omega
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omega
- Omega is located in Catron County
- Cibola County
- County Seat for Cibola: Grants
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Cibola County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Cibola County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Cibola County
- Nearest Communities to Salt Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Salt Lake.
- Fence Lake
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fence Lake
- Fence Lake is located in Cibola County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fence Lake <4>
- Atarque
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north) - Tingle ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Techado
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast) - Grassie Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grassie Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassie Place
- Grassie Place is located in Cibola County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Salt Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Salt Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.4534, Longitude: -108.7698 In this case, the coordinates for Salt Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |