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Nearest Communities to White Sands,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

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.

White Sands is located in Dona Ana County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dona Ana County: Luna, Otero, Sierra & El Paso (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White Sands. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Dona Ana 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 White Sands (which is Dona Ana 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 White Sands

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

  • Dona Ana County   (where White Sands resides)
  • Otero County
    • County Website:   https://co.otero.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Otero:   Alamogordo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Sands   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Sands.
      • Elwood
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Elwood is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
      • Alvarado
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Alvarado is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvarado
      • Orogrande
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Turquoise
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Turquoise is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turquoise
      • Newman
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Newman is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newman
      • Paxton Crossing
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Paxton Crossing is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton Crossing
      • Point of Sands
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Point of Sands is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Sands
  • El Paso County
    • County Website:   https://www.epcounty.com/
    • County Seat for El Paso:   El Paso (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Sands   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Sands.
      • Anthony
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Anthony is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anthony
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,257 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anthony <3>
      • Newman
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Newman is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newman
      • R W Jones Colonia
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • R W Jones Colonia is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for R W Jones Colonia
      • La Tuna
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • La Tuna is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Tuna
      • Vinton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Vinton is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,168 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vinton <3>
      • Westway
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Westway is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westway
      • Mobile Haven Estates
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Mobile Haven Estates is located in El Paso County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile Haven Estates
        • Mobile Haven Estates has also been known as:
        • Mobile Haven Estates Colonia

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 from Point A (ie- White Sands) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.