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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 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.

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:   https://www.prowersco.gov/
    • County Seat for Prowers:   Lamar
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lamar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lamar.
      • West Farm
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • West Farm is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Farm
      • Culp
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Culp is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culp
      • Beta
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Beta is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beta
      • Kornman
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Channing
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Channing is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Channing
      • Sugar
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Sugar is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar
      • Karl
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Karl is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Karl
      • Wiley
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • May Valley
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • May Valley is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May Valley
      • Carlton
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Carlton is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
      • Goodale
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Goodale is located in Prowers County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodale
      • Grote
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Parrish
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
          • Parrish is located in Prowers County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parrish
        • Koen
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • Koen is located in Prowers County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koen
        • Bristol
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Bristol is located in Prowers County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristol
        • Granada
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Warwick
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Warwick is located in Prowers County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warwick
        • Hartman
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Holly
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Bent County
    • County Website:   https://www.bentcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Bent:   Las Animas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lamar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lamar.
      • Old Fort Lyons
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Old Fort Lyons is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort Lyons
      • Prowers
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Prowers is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prowers
      • Four Corners Crossing
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Keesee
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Keesee is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keesee
      • Big Bend
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Big Bend is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend
      • Able
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Able is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Able
      • McClave
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Lubers
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Lubers is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lubers
      • Hasty
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • 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)
        • Kreybill is located in Bent County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kreybill
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Fort Lyon
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Keller
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Keller is located in Bent County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keller
        • Las Animas Junction
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Las Animas Junction is located in Bent County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Animas Junction
        • Melina
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Melina is located in Bent County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melina
  • 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 from Point A (ie- Lamar) 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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