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Nearest Communities to Corlena,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Corlena is located in Dallam County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dallam County: Union (NM), Cimarron (OK), Hartley & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Corlena. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Dallam 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 Corlena (which is Dallam 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 Corlena

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

  • Dallam County   (where Corlena resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.dallam.org/
    • County Seat for Dallam:   Dalhart
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Corlena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Corlena.
      • Perico ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Perico is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perico
      • Texline
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Thompson Grove
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Thompson Grove is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Grove
      • Bunker Hill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Bunker Hill is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
      • Windy Hill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Windy Hill is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Hill
      • Buffalo Springs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Buffalo Springs is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
      • Ware
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Ware is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ware
      • Coldwater
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Coldwater is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldwater
      • Bolin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Bolin is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolin
      • Dalhart
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Hartley County
  • Union County
    • County Website:   https://unionnm.us/
    • County Seat for Union:   Clayton (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Corlena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Corlena.
      • Bates
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Bates is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates
      • Clayton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Clayton is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,660 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clayton <3>
      • Sedan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Thomas
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Thomas is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
      • Royce
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Royce is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royce
      • Seneca
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Tate ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Tate is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tate
      • McNess Crossing
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • McNess Crossing is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNess Crossing
      • Old Moses
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Old Moses is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Moses
      • Moses
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Moses is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moses
      • Amistad
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Hayden
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Hayden is located in Union County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
  • Cimarron County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Corlena) 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.