Playas, New Mexico

Platero
(Bernalillo County)

Plaza
(Quay County)

Summary

Community
Profile

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Current Weather

While our information shows that the community of Playas is historic,^<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Playas, we'll be sure to add our findings.

The largest community within a 50 mile [80 km] radius is Lordsburg. It is located about 31 miles [49 km] to the north of where Playas would have been located and has a population of 3,379 people.^<2>

Below is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>
	Cotton City	NW	23 mi [37.01 km]

Hidalgo County

Playas would have been located within present day Hidalgo County.

Below are counties that are near Playas (within 40 mi [64.4 km]). For each of these counties, we also show the community that is closest to Playas:

County	Direction	Nearest Community	Distance From Playas
Cochise County (AZ)	W	Portal (AZ)	35 miles [56 km]
Grant County	NE	Pothook	4 miles [6 km]
Luna County	E	Eller Place	33 miles [53 km]

The Commemorative
Quarter for
New Mexico ^<4>

Search for Local Businesses

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Playas no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Lordsburg. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Playas:

Flickr.com

Panoramio.com

Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Playas? Please visit the Map Page for Playas.

Footnotes

<1>	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. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Playas, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<2>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Playas. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Playas and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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Last Modified: 06 Nov 2009