Nearest Communities to Lamar,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lamar, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lamar:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 Lamar.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Lamar is located in Prowers County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Prowers County: Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Greeley (KS), Hamilton (KS) & Stanton (KS).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lamar. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Prowers 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 Lamar (which is Prowers 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 Lamar
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Prowers County (where Lamar resides)
- County Website: www.prowerscounty.net/
- County Seat for Prowers: Lamar
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Prowers County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Prowers County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Prowers County
- Nearest Communities to Lamar ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lamar.
- West Farm
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Culp
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north) - Beta
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Kornman
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kornman
- Kornman is located in Prowers County
- Channing
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast) - Sugar
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Karl
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast) - Wiley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wiley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiley
- Wiley is located in Prowers County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 395 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wiley <4>
- May Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May Valley
- May Valley is located in Prowers County
- Carlton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east) - Goodale
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east) - Grote
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grote
- Grote is located in Prowers County
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Parrish
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Koen
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east) - Bristol
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Granada
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granada
- Granada is located in Prowers County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 509 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Granada <4>
- Warwick
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Hartman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
- Hartman is located in Prowers County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hartman <4>
- Holly
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
- Holly is located in Prowers County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 775 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holly <4>
- Parrish
- Bent County
- County Seat for Bent: Las Animas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- Nearest Communities to Lamar ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lamar.
- Old Fort Lyons
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Fort Lyons have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort Lyons
- Old Fort Lyons is located in Bent County
- Prowers
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - Four Corners Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corners Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners Crossing
- Four Corners Crossing is located in Bent County
- Keesee
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Big Bend
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Able
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - McClave
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McClave have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClave
- McClave is located in Bent County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McClave <4>
- Lubers
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Hasty
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hasty
- Hasty is located in Bent County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hasty <4>
- Caddoa ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Hilton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Kreybill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Continue List (4 more) ...
- Fort Lyon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Lyon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lyon
- Fort Lyon is located in Bent County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Lyon <4>
- Keller
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Las Animas Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Las Animas Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Animas Junction
- Las Animas Junction is located in Bent County
- Melina
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fort Lyon
- Kiowa County
- County Seat for Kiowa: Eads
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- Nearest Communities to Lamar ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lamar.
- Chivington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chivington
- Chivington is located in Kiowa County
- Brandon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Water Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- 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
- Eads
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eads
- Eads is located in Kiowa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 632 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eads <4>
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lamar) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lamar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0851, Longitude: -102.6190 |
| <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. |