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Nearest Communities to Buckeye Crossroads,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Buckeye Crossroads.<1>

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


Buckeye Crossroads is located in Baca County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baca County: Bent, Las Animas, Prowers, Morton (KS), Stanton (KS), Union (NM) & Cimarron (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buckeye Crossroads. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Baca 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 Buckeye Crossroads (which is Baca 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 Buckeye Crossroads

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

  • Baca County   (where Buckeye Crossroads resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bacacountyco.gov/
    • County Seat for Baca:   Springfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buckeye Crossroads   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buckeye Crossroads.
      • Lycan
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Lycan is located in Baca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lycan
      • Minneapolis
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Minneapolis is located in Baca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minneapolis
      • Bartlett
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Bartlett is located in Baca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartlett
      • Walsh
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Two Buttes
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Stonington
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Vilas
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Boston ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Boston is located in Baca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
      • Midway
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Midway is located in Baca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Springfield
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Hamilton County
  • Morton County
  • Stanton County
    • County Website:   https://www.stantoncountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Stanton:   Johnson (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buckeye Crossroads   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buckeye Crossroads.
      • Saunders
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Saunders is located in Stanton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
      • Manter
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Manter is located in Stanton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manter
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manter <3>
      • Johnson
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Johnson is located in Stanton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,321 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Johnson <3>
      • Platt City ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Platt City is located in Stanton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platt City
        • Platt City has also been known as:
        • Platt
      • Julian
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Julian is located in Stanton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Buckeye Crossroads) 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.