Nearest Communities to Fort Quitman,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Quitman, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Quitman:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Fort Quitman.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Fort Quitman is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Hudspeth County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hudspeth County: Otero (NM), Culberson, El Paso & Jeff Davis.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Quitman.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Fort Quitman (which is Hudspeth 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 Fort Quitman
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Hudspeth County (where Fort Quitman resides)
- County Seat for Hudspeth: Sierra Blanca
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Hudspeth County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Hudspeth County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Hudspeth County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Quitman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Quitman.
- Esperanza
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esperanza
- Esperanza is located in Hudspeth County
- Finlay
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Etholen ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Old Patterson Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Patterson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Patterson Place
- Old Patterson Place is located in Hudspeth County
- Sierra Blanca
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sierra Blanca have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sierra Blanca
- Sierra Blanca is located in Hudspeth County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sierra Blanca <5>
- Mile High
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - McNary
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest) - Arispe ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Fort Hancock
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Hancock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hancock
- Fort Hancock is located in Hudspeth County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Hancock <5>
- Villa Alegre
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Villa Alegre have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Alegre
- Villa Alegre is located in Hudspeth County
- Villa Alegre has also been known as:
- Villa Alegre Colonia
- Indian Hot Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Hot Springs
- Indian Hot Springs is located in Hudspeth County
- Eagle Flat
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Flat
- Eagle Flat is located in Hudspeth County
- Acala
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acala
- Acala is located in Hudspeth County
- Iser
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Quitman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Quitman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.0626, Longitude: -105.5838 In this case, the coordinates for Fort Quitman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Fort Quitman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |