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Nearest Communities to Burlington,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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 from Burlington.<1>

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

Burlington is located in Kit Carson County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kit Carson County: Cheyenne, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma, Cheyenne (KS), Sherman (KS) & Wallace (KS).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Burlington. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Kit Carson 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 Burlington (which is Kit Carson 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 Burlington

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

  • Kit Carson County   (where Burlington resides)
    • County Website:   www.kitcarsoncounty.org/
    • County Seat for Kit Carson:   Burlington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burlington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burlington.
      • West Burlington
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Burlington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Burlington
        • West Burlington is located in Kit Carson County
      • Peconic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peconic have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peconic
        • Peconic is located in Kit Carson County
      • Bethune
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Stratton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stratton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratton
        • Stratton is located in Kit Carson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 640 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stratton <4>
      • Vona
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vona
        • Vona is located in Kit Carson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vona <4>
  • Cheyenne County
  • Yuma County
    • County Seat for Yuma:   Wray
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burlington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burlington.
      • Hale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale
        • Hale is located in Yuma County
      • Idalia
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Idalia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idalia
        • Idalia is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Idalia <4>
      • Kirk
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Sherman County
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Goodland (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burlington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burlington.
      • Kanorado
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Ruleton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ruleton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruleton
        • Ruleton is located in Sherman County (KS)
      • Caruso
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Caruso. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caruso
        • Caruso is located in Sherman County (KS)
      • Goodland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
        • Goodland is located in Sherman County (KS)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,301 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodland <4>

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Burlington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Burlington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3046, Longitude: -102.2714       In this case, the coordinates for Burlington 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.




 

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