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Nearest Communities to Firstview,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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


Firstview is located in Cheyenne County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cheyenne County: Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Greeley (KS) & Wallace (KS).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Firstview. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Cheyenne 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 Firstview (which is Cheyenne 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 Firstview

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

  • Cheyenne County   (where Firstview resides)
    • County Seat for Cheyenne:   Cheyenne Wells
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Firstview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Firstview.
      • Cheyenne Wells
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cheyenne Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Wells
        • Cheyenne Wells is located in Cheyenne County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 815 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cheyenne Wells <4>
      • Old Wells
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Wells
        • Old Wells is located in Cheyenne County
      • Kit Carson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Mount Pearl
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Pearl have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pearl
        • Mount Pearl is located in Cheyenne County
      • Fort Big Spring
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Big Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Big Spring
        • Fort Big Spring is located in Cheyenne County
      • Arapahoe
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Sorrento
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sorrento have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrento
        • Sorrento is located in Cheyenne County
      • Wild Horse
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Kiowa County
    • County Seat for Kiowa:   Eads
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Firstview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Firstview.
      • Water Valley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Water Valley came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
        • Water Valley is located in Kiowa County
      • Brandon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brandon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandon
        • Brandon is located in Kiowa County
      • Chivington
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Eads
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Sheridan Lake
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheridan Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Lake
        • Sheridan Lake is located in Kiowa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sheridan Lake <4>
      • Stuart
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stuart have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart
        • Stuart is located in Kiowa County
      • Hawkins
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hawkins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
        • Hawkins is located in Kiowa County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Firstview) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Firstview. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8163, Longitude: -102.5375       In this case, the coordinates for Firstview 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>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.









 

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