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Nearest Communities to Sofia,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Sofia.<1>

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

Sofia is located in Union County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baca (CO), Las Animas (CO), Colfax, Harding, Quay, Cimarron (OK), Dallam (TX) & Hartley (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sofia. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Union 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 Sofia (which is Union 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 Sofia

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

  • Union County   (where Sofia resides)
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sofia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sofia.
      • Gladstone
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Pennington
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Pennington is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Grande
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Grande is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grande
      • Grenville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Mount Dora
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Beenham
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Beenham is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beenham
      • Des Moines
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Capulin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Tate ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Tate is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tate
      • Garcia ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Garcia is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia
      • Folsom
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Royce
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Royce is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Corrumpa ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Corrumpa is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corrumpa
        • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Willow Springs is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
        • Madison ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Madison is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison
        • Miera
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Miera is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miera
  • Colfax County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Colfax:   Raton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sofia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sofia.
      • Tafoya ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Tafoya is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
      • Farley ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Farley is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
      • Palo Blanco ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Palo Blanco is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palo Blanco
      • Kiowa ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Kiowa is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Chico ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Chico is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
      • Abbott
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Abbott is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott
  • Harding County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sofia) 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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