Nearest Communities to Sunshine,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sunshine, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sunshine:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.
Please note 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Sunshine is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Luna County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Luna County: Dona Ana, Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sunshine. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Luna County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Sunshine (which is Luna 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 Sunshine
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Luna County (where Sunshine resides)
- County Website: https://lunacountynm.us/
- County Seat for Luna: Deming
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sunshine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunshine.
- Deming
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Arsco
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Arsco is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arsco
- Waterloo
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Waterloo is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
- Peruhill
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Peruhill is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruhill
- Tunis
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Tunis is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
- Mirage
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Mirage is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
- Carne
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Carne is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carne
- Eller Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Eller Place is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eller Place
- Myndus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Myndus is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myndus
- Gage
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Gage is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage
- Akela ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Akela is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akela
- Florida
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Florida is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Border City ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Border City is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
- Columbus
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Mimbres
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Mimbres is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mimbres
- Hermanas ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Hermanas is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermanas
- Spalding
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Spalding is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spalding
- Cedar Grove ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Cedar Grove is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
- Cambray
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Cambray is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambray
- Old Town
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Old Town is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Arena
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Arena is located in Luna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Dona Ana County
- County Website: https://www.donaanacounty.org/
- County Seat for Dona Ana: Las Cruces
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sunshine ...
- Dona
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Dona is located in Dona Ana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dona
- Grant County
- County Website: https://www.grantcountynm.gov/
- County Seat for Grant: Silver City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sunshine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunshine.
- Wilna
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wilna is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilna
- Guess Place
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Guess Place is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guess Place
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- Sunshine) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sunshine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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