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Nearest Communities to Springer,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast 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 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.<1>

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

Springer is located in Colfax County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Colfax County: Costilla (CO), Las Animas (CO), Harding, Mora, Taos & Union.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Springer. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Colfax 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 Springer (which is Colfax 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 Springer

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

  • Colfax County   (where Springer resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Colfax:   Raton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Springer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Springer.
      • Toril
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Toril is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toril
      • Taylor Springs ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Taylor Springs is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Springs
      • French
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • French is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French
      • Colmor ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Miami
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Maxwell
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Urraca Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Urraca Place is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urraca Place
      • McDaniel Cimarron Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Valdez Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Valdez Place is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valdez Place
      • Colfax ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Colfax is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colfax
      • Sunny Side
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Sunny Side is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Side
      • Rayado
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Rayado is located in Colfax County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayado
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Sweetwater ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Sweetwater is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
        • Abbott
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Abbott is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott
        • Schomberg
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • Schomberg is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schomberg
        • Cimarron
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Chico ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Chico is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
        • Tinaja
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Tinaja is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
        • Capitan Hill
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Capitan Hill is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitan Hill
        • Dawson ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Lauretta ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Six Mile Gate
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Six Mile Gate is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Six Mile Gate
        • Hebron
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Hebron is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
        • Koehler ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Koehler is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koehler
        • Van Houten ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Van Houten is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Houten
        • Farley ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Farley is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
        • Tafoya ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Tafoya is located in Colfax County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
  • Harding County
  • Mora County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Springer) 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.