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Nearest Communities to Tatum,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Tatum.<1>

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

Tatum is located in Lea County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tatum. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Lea 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 Tatum (which is Lea 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 Tatum

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

  • Lea County   (where Tatum resides)
    • County Website:   www.leacounty.net/
    • County Seat for Lea:   Lovington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Tatum   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Tatum.
      • Gladiola ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • McDonald
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Peveler Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peveler Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peveler Place
        • Peveler Place is located in Lea County
      • Hillburn City
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillburn City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
        • Hillburn City is located in Lea County
      • Prairieview ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairieview have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieview
        • Prairieview is located in Lea County
      • Bronco
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bronco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
        • Bronco is located in Lea County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Bronco
        • From Tatum to Bronco
      • Crossroads
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Lovington
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lovington have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovington
        • Lovington is located in Lea County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,474 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovington <3>
      • Caprock
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caprock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caprock
        • Caprock is located in Lea County
      • Knowles ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knowles have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
        • Knowles is located in Lea County
  • Roosevelt County
  • Cochran County
  • Gaines County
  • Yoakum 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 from Point A (ie- Tatum) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tatum. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.2570, Longitude: -103.3176    
<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.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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