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Nearest Communities to Tucumcari,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Keep in mind 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.

Tucumcari is located in Quay County and is the County Seat.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tucumcari. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Quay 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 Tucumcari (which is Quay 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 Tucumcari

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

  • Quay County   (where Tucumcari resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.quaycounty-nm.gov/
    • County Seat for Quay:   Tucumcari
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Tucumcari   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Tucumcari.
      • Hargis
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Hargis is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargis
      • Lesbia ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Palomas
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Palomas is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palomas
      • Hudson
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Hudson is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
      • Quay
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Quay is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quay
      • Norton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Norton is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
      • Hendricks Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Hendricks Place is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendricks Place
      • Montoya ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Montoya is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montoya
      • Puerto ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Puerto is located in Quay County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puerto
      • Cummings Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • San Jon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Logan
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Pleasant Valley is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
        • Porter
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Porter is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
        • Woods Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Woods Place is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
        • Ragland
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Plain ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Plain is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
        • Anniston ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Anniston is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anniston
        • Forrest
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Forrest is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest
        • Jordan
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Jordan is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
        • Bard
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Bard is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bard
        • Bunk Clay Place
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Bunk Clay Place is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunk Clay Place
        • Wheatland
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Wheatland is located in Quay County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
  • Harding County
  • San Miguel County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tucumcari) 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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