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Nearest Communities to Haxtun,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast 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 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 east 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.<1>

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

Haxtun is located in Phillips County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Logan, Sedgwick, Yuma, Chase (NE) & Perkins (NE).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Haxtun. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Haxtun (which is Phillips 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 Haxtun

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

  • Phillips County   (where Haxtun resides)
  • Logan County
    • County Website:   https://logancounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Logan:   Sterling
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Haxtun   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Haxtun.
      • Dailey
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Dailey is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dailey
      • Rockland
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Rockland is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
      • Saint Petersburg
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Saint Petersburg is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Petersburg
      • Fleming
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • New Haven
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • New Haven is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Haven
      • Leroy
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Leroy is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
      • Marcott
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Marcott is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcott
      • Red Lion
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Red Lion is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion
      • Crook
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Tobin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Tobin is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobin
      • Proctor ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Proctor is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
      • Galien
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Galien is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galien
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Powell
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Powell is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Griff
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Griff is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griff
        • Selma
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Selma is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
        • Iliff
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Twin Mills
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Twin Mills is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Mills
        • Ackerman
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Ackerman is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackerman
        • Hayford
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Hayford is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayford
        • Jessica
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Jessica is located in Logan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessica
        • Padroni
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Sterling
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Sedgwick County
    • County Website:   https://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Sedgwick:   Julesburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Haxtun   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Haxtun.
      • Dorsey
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Dorsey is located in Sedgwick County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorsey
      • Sedgwick
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Fort Sedgwick ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Fort Sedgwick is located in Sedgwick County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Sedgwick
      • Fort Julesburg ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Fort Julesburg is located in Sedgwick County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Julesburg
      • Ovid
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Ovid is located in Sedgwick County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ovid
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 302 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ovid <3>
      • Julesburg
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Washington County
  • Yuma County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Haxtun) 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.