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Nearest Communities to King Center,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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


King Center is located in Crowley County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crowley County: El Paso, Kiowa, Lincoln, Otero & Pueblo.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of King Center. Of these communities, 41 are located in counties other than Crowley 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 King Center (which is Crowley 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 King Center

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

  • Crowley County   (where King Center resides)
  • Bent County
  • Kiowa County
  • Otero County
    • County Website:   https://oterocounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Otero:   La Junta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to King Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from King Center.
      • Elder
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Elder is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elder
      • Manzanola
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Fowler
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Vroman
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Vroman is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vroman
      • Fayette
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Fayette is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette
      • Rocky Ford
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Krammes
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Krammes is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krammes
      • Newdale
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Newdale is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newdale
      • Shelton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Shelton is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelton
      • Hawley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Hawley is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley
      • Hays
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Hays is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hays
      • Roberta
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Roberta is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberta
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Randall
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Randall is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall
        • Swink
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Orr
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Orr is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orr
        • Cheraw
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • La Junta Gardens
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • La Junta Gardens is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Gardens
        • La Junta Village
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • La Junta Village is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Village
        • Ormega
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Ormega is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ormega
        • Benton
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Benton is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
        • North La Junta
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • North La Junta is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North La Junta
        • Castiel
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Castiel is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castiel
        • La Junta
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Timpas
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Timpas is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timpas
        • Casa
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Casa is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa
        • Old Fort Bent ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Old Fort Bent is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort Bent
        • Hadley
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Hadley is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hadley
        • Ayer
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Ayer is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayer
  • Pueblo County
    • County Website:   https://county.pueblo.org/
    • County Seat for Pueblo:   Pueblo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to King Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from King Center.
      • Hamlet
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Hamlet is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlet
      • Nepesta
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Nepesta is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepesta
      • Boone
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Fort Reynolds
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Fort Reynolds is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Reynolds
      • Whiterock
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Whiterock is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiterock
      • Avondale
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • North Avondale
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • North Avondale is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Avondale
      • Nyberg
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Nyberg is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyberg
      • Rock Crossing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Rock Crossing is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Crossing
      • Devine
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Devine is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devine
      • Vineland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Vineland is located in Pueblo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland

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 drawn from Point A (ie- King Center) 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.
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