Nearest Communities to Taylor Springs,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Taylor Springs, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Taylor Springs:
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 starting from Taylor Springs.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Taylor Springs is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Taylor Springs. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Colfax 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 Taylor Springs (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 Taylor Springs
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Colfax County (where Taylor Springs resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.colfax.nm.us/
- County Seat for Colfax: Raton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Taylor Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Taylor Springs.
- Springer
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Toril
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Toril is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toril
- French
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- French is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French
- Colmor ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Colmor is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colmor
- Abbott
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Abbott is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott
- Maxwell
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Miami
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Chico ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Chico is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
- Urraca Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Urraca Place is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urraca Place
- Valdez Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Valdez Place is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valdez Place
- Schomberg
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Schomberg is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schomberg
- McDaniel Cimarron Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
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- Sunny Side
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Sunny Side is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Side
- Tinaja
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tinaja is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
- Colfax ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Colfax is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colfax
- Sweetwater ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Sweetwater is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
- Rayado
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Rayado is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayado
- Farley ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Farley is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
- Tafoya ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Tafoya is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tafoya
- Palo Blanco ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Palo Blanco is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palo Blanco
- Cimarron
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hebron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Hebron is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
- Capitan Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Capitan Hill is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitan Hill
- Dawson ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Dawson is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawson
- Koehler ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Koehler is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koehler
- Lauretta ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lauretta is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauretta
- Kiowa ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Kiowa is located in Colfax County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
- Harding County
- Mora County
- County Website: https://countyofmora.com/
- County Seat for Mora: Mora
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Taylor Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Taylor Springs.
- Nolan ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Nolan is located in Mora County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolan
- Levy
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Levy is located in Mora County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levy
- Wagon Mound
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Naranjos
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Naranjos is located in Mora County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naranjos
- Union County
- County Website: https://unionnm.us/
- County Seat for Union: Clayton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Taylor Springs ...
- Gladstone
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
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- Taylor Springs) 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 Taylor Springs, 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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