Nearest Communities to Old Wells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Old Wells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Old Wells:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Old Wells 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 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Old Wells. Of these communities, 10 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 Old Wells (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 Old Wells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Cheyenne County (where Old Wells resides)
- County Seat for Cheyenne: Cheyenne Wells
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- Nearest Communities to Old Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Old Wells.
- Cheyenne Wells
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- 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>
- Arapahoe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arapahoe
- Arapahoe is located in Cheyenne County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arapahoe <4>
- Firstview
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - Mount Pearl
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- 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
- Kit Carson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kit Carson
- Kit Carson is located in Cheyenne County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kit Carson <4>
- Fort Big Spring
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- 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
- 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 Old Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Old Wells.
- Sheridan Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- 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 south) - Water Valley
(30 miles [48.3 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
- Kit Carson County
- County Website: www.kitcarsoncounty.org/
- County Seat for Kit Carson: Burlington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Kit Carson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Kit Carson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Kit Carson County
- Nearest Communities to Old Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Old Wells.
- West Burlington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Burlington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Burlington
- West Burlington is located in Kit Carson County
- Bethune
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bethune have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethune
- Bethune is located in Kit Carson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 235 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bethune <4>
- Burlington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burlington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
- Burlington is located in Kit Carson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,126 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burlington <4>
- Peconic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Wallace County
- County Seat for Wallace: Sharon Springs (KS)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- Nearest Communities to Old Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Old Wells.
- Weskan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weskan
- Weskan is located in Wallace County (KS)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weskan <4>
- Sunland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Sharon Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon Springs
- Sharon Springs is located in Wallace County (KS)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 769 people
- Former name for Sharon Springs:
- Eagle Trail
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sharon Springs <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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9000, Longitude: -102.3263 In this case, the coordinates for Old Wells 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. |