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Nearest Communities to Sunset,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Sunset.<1>

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

Sunset is located in Lincoln County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Chaves, DeBaca, Guadalupe, Otero, Sierra, Socorro & Torrance.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sunset. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Sunset (which is Lincoln 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 Sunset

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Sunset resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lincolncountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Carrizozo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sunset   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sunset.
      • Riverside
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Riverside is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • Picacho
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Tinnie
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Hondo
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Escondido ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Escondido is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escondido
      • San Patricio
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • San Patricio is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Patricio
      • Bluewater
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Arabela
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Arabela is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arabela
      • Lincoln
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Lincoln is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Baca ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Baca is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baca
        • Pine Lodge
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Pine Lodge is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Lodge
        • Glencoe
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Double Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Double Crossing is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Crossing
        • Fort Stanton ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Fort Stanton is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Stanton
        • Ruidoso Downs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Chaves County
    • County Website:   https://www.chavescounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Chaves:   Roswell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sunset   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sunset.
      • Diamante Mill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Diamante Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante Mill
      • Highway Mill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Highway Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway Mill
      • Center Mill
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Center Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Mill
      • Missouri Plaza ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Missouri Plaza is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri Plaza
      • River Mill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • River Mill is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Mill
      • Sherman Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Sherman Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Place
      • Old Longbotbam Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Old Longbotbam Place is located in Chaves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Longbotbam Place
  • Otero County

Footnotes ...

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