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Nearest Communities to Las Pampas,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 starting from Las Pampas.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.


Las Pampas is located in Presidio County.

The following 2 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Presidio County: Brewster & Jeff Davis.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Las Pampas.

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 Las Pampas (which is Presidio 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 Las Pampas

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

  • Presidio County   (where Las Pampas resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.presidio.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Presidio:   Marfa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Las Pampas   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Las Pampas.
      • La Junta
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • La Junta is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta
      • Haciendito
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Haciendito is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haciendito
      • Presidio
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Ochoa ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Ochoa is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
      • Shafter
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Shafter is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
      • Fort Leaton ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Fort Leaton is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Leaton
      • Loma Pelona
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Loma Pelona is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Pelona
      • Indio ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Indio is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio
      • Borrachio
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Borrachio is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borrachio
      • Adobes ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Adobes is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adobes
      • Chinati ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Chinati is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinati
      • Casa Piedra ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Casa Piedra is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Piedra
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Polvo
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Polvo is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polvo
        • Redford
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Chaffin Place
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Chaffin Place is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaffin Place
        • Plata ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Plata is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plata
        • Papalote Colorado
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Papalote Colorado is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Colorado
        • Papalote Escondido
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Papalote Escondido is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Escondido
        • Ruidosa
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Papalote Llano
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Papalote Llano is located in Presidio County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Llano

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- Las Pampas) 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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