Nearest Communities to Vest Wells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vest Wells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vest Wells:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Please note 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.
Vest Wells is located in Chaves County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaves County: DeBaca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Otero & Roosevelt.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vest Wells. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Chaves 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 Vest Wells (which is Chaves 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 Vest Wells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chaves County (where Vest Wells resides)
- County Website: https://www.chavescounty.gov/
- County Seat for Chaves: Roswell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vest Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vest Wells.
- Corner Well
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Corner Well is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Well
- Lone Wolf
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Lone Wolf is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Wolf
- Robertson Wells
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Robertson Wells is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertson Wells
- Beatty Wells
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Beatty Wells is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Wells
- Boaz ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Boaz is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boaz
- Elkins ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Elkins is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkins
- Campbell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Campbell is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbell
- Olive
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Olive is located in Chaves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive
- Lea County
- County Website: https://www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vest Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vest Wells.
- Caprock
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Caprock is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caprock
- Crossroads
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Roosevelt County
- County Website: https://www.rooseveltcounty.com/
- County Seat for Roosevelt: Portales
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vest Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vest Wells.
- Home Place Well
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Home Place Well is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Place Well
- Eagle Hill ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Eagle Hill is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Hill
- Kenna
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
- Tornero
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Tornero is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tornero
- Milnesand
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Elida
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- New Hope ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- New Hope is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Kermit ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kermit is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kermit
- Pep ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Pep is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pep
- Red Lake ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Red Lake is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake
- Richland ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Richland is located in Roosevelt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
- Bluit ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Bluit is located in Roosevelt County
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- Dora
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Vest Wells) 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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