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

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

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 starting from Sand Springs.<1>

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

Sand Springs is located in Quay County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand Springs. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Quay 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 Sand Springs (which is Quay 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 Sand Springs

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

  • Quay County   (where Sand Springs resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sand Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Springs.
      • Bunk Clay Place
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Bunk Clay Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunk Clay Place
      • Obar
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Obar is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obar
      • Anniston ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Anniston is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anniston
      • Woods Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Woods Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
      • Logan
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Nara Visa
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Cummings Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
      • Hendricks Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Hendricks Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Place
      • Porter
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Porter is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
      • Rain Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Rain Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rain Place
      • Hudson
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Hudson is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
      • Bard
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Bard is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bard
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Glenrio ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • San Jon
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Endee ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Endee is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endee
        • Lesbia ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Lesbia is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
        • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Pleasant Valley is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
  • Harding County
    • County Website:   https://www.hardingcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Harding:   Mosquero
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sand Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Springs.
      • Bates Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Bates Place is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates Place
      • Brown Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Brown Place is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Place
      • Rosebud Farms
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Rosebud Farms is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud Farms
      • Gallegos
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Gallegos is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallegos
      • Rosebud ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Rosebud is located in Harding County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud
  • Union County
  • Deaf Smith County
  • Hartley County
  • Oldham County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.oldham.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Oldham:   Vega (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sand Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Springs.
      • Knoblaw
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Knoblaw is located in Oldham County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knoblaw
      • Corner Windmill
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Oldham County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
      • Boise ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Boise is located in Oldham County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boise

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- Sand 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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