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Nearest Communities to Red Bluff,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Red Bluff.<1>

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

Red Bluff is located in Reeves County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Reeves County: Eddy (NM), Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Bluff. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Reeves 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 Red Bluff (which is Reeves 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 Red Bluff

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

  • Reeves County   (where Red Bluff resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.reevescounty.org/
    • County Seat for Reeves:   Pecos
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Bluff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Bluff.
      • Angeles
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Angeles is located in Reeves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angeles
      • Orla ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Orla is located in Reeves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orla
      • Robinson Arms Landing
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Riverton
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverton is located in Reeves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverton
      • Arno
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Arno is located in Reeves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arno
      • Burchard Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Burchard Place is located in Reeves County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burchard Place
  • Loving County
  • Eddy County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.eddy.nm.us/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   Carlsbad (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Bluff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Bluff.
      • Rock House Crossing
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Rock House Crossing is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock House Crossing
      • Red Bluff
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Red Bluff is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
      • Ross Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Ross Place is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Place
      • Pierce Canyon Crossing
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Malaga
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Harroun Crossing
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Harroun Crossing is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harroun Crossing
      • Lookout Crossing
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Lookout Crossing is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout Crossing
      • Lookout ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Lookout is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
      • Loving
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Loving is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loving
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,372 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loving <3>
      • Black River Village
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Black River Village is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black River Village
      • Harkey Crossing
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Harkey Crossing is located in Eddy County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harkey Crossing
  • Lea County

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- Red Bluff) 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.