Nearest Communities to Van Horn,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Van Horn, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Van Horn:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast 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 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 east 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 starting from Van Horn.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Van Horn is located in Culberson County and is the County Seat.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Culberson County: Eddy (NM), Otero (NM), Hudspeth, Jeff Davis & Reeves.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 10 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Van Horn. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Culberson 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 Van Horn (which is Culberson 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 Van Horn
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Culberson County (where Van Horn resides)
- County Seat for Culberson: Van Horn
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- Nearest Communities to Van Horn ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Van Horn.
- Corner Windmill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
- Corner Windmill is located in Culberson County
- Lobo ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobo
- Lobo is located in Culberson County
- Boracho ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Hudspeth County
- 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 Van Horn ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Van Horn.
- Crusher
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Scotts Crossing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scotts Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Crossing
- Scotts Crossing is located in Hudspeth County
- Allamoore
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west) - Eagle Flat
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Flat
- Eagle Flat is located in Hudspeth County
- Arispe ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Old Patterson Place
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Patterson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Patterson Place
- Old Patterson Place is located in Hudspeth County
- Jeff Davis County
- County Seat for Jeff Davis: Fort Davis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- Nearest Communities to Van Horn ...
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 from Point A (ie- Van Horn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Van Horn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.0407, Longitude: -104.8340 In this case, the coordinates for Van Horn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |