Nearest Communities to Val Verde,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Val Verde, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Val Verde:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.
Val Verde is primarily located in Colfax County. A portion of Val Verde extends into Socorro 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 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Val Verde. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Colfax 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 Val Verde (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 Val Verde
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sierra County
- County Seat for Sierra: Truth or Consequences
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Sierra County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Sierra County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Sierra County
- Nearest Communities to Val Verde ...
- Socorro County
- County Seat for Socorro: Socorro
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Family Search:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of New Mexico
- Socorro County
- Nearest Communities to Val Verde ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Val Verde.
- Tiffany
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest) - San Marcial ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Marcial have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Marcial
- San Marcial is located in Socorro County
- Craig ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Hard Luck Crossing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hard Luck Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hard Luck Crossing
- Hard Luck Crossing is located in Socorro County
- Paraje ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - San Antonito
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonito
- San Antonito is located in Socorro County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for San Antonito <4>
- San Antonio
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio
- San Antonio is located in Socorro County
- San Pedro ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Kinney Wells
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kinney Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinney Wells
- Kinney Wells is located in Socorro County
- Old Carthage
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Carthage have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Carthage
- Old Carthage is located in Socorro County
- Tokay ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast) - Lava
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Continue List (12 more) ...
- Laborcita
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north) - Bosquecito
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bosquecito have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosquecito
- Bosquecito is located in Socorro County
- Luis Lopez
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Luis Lopez have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luis Lopez
- Luis Lopez is located in Socorro County
- Carthage ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Tajo ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north) - Socorro
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Socorro
- Socorro is located in Socorro County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,315 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Socorro <4>
- Mill Place
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mill Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Place
- Mill Place is located in Socorro County
- Florida
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Escondida ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Rosedale ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Pueblito
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north) - Kelly ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Laborcita
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Val Verde) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Val Verde. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7031, Longitude: -106.9309 In this case, the coordinates for Val Verde have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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. |