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Nearest Communities to Tapicitoes,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Tapicitoes.<1>

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

Tapicitoes is located in Rio Arriba County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rio Arriba County: Archuleta (CO), Conejos (CO), Los Alamos, Mora, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe & Taos.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tapicitoes. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Rio Arriba 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 Tapicitoes (which is Rio Arriba 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 Tapicitoes

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

  • Rio Arriba County   (where Tapicitoes resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rio-arriba.org/
    • County Seat for Rio Arriba:   Tierra Amarilla
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Tapicitoes   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Tapicitoes.
      • Ojito
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ojito is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojito
      • Lindrith
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Llaves
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Llaves is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Llaves
      • Pounds ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Pounds is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pounds
      • Wright Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Wright Place is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright Place
      • El Vado
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • El Vado is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Vado
      • Capulin
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Capulin is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capulin
      • Gallina
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Vaqueros ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Vaqueros is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaqueros
      • Alire ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Alire is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alire
      • Las Nutrias
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Las Nutrias is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Nutrias
      • La Puente ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • La Puente is located in Rio Arriba County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Puente
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Rutheron
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Rutheron is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutheron
        • Arroyo del Agua
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Arroyo del Agua is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arroyo del Agua
        • Santa Teresa
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Santa Teresa is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Teresa
        • Cebolla
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Rio Puerco
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Rio Puerco is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Puerco
        • El Monte Rojo
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • El Monte Rojo is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Monte Rojo
        • Los Ojos
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Tierra Amarilla ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Tierra Amarilla is located in Rio Arriba County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Amarilla
        • Coyote
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Sandoval County

Footnotes ...

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