Nearest Communities to Sorrento,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sorrento, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sorrento:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Sorrento.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sorrento 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 Sorrento. Of these communities, 9 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 Sorrento (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 Sorrento
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Cheyenne County (where Sorrento 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 Sorrento ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sorrento.
- Kit Carson
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- 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 <3>
- Wild Horse
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wild Horse
- Wild Horse is located in Cheyenne County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wild Horse <3>
- Fort Big Spring
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Big Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Big Spring
- Fort Big Spring is located in Cheyenne County
- Aroya
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest) - Mount Pearl
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Pearl have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pearl
- Mount Pearl is located in Cheyenne County
- Firstview
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Cheyenne Wells
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cheyenne Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <3>
- 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 Sorrento ...
- 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 Sorrento ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sorrento.
- Hawkins
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Galatea
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Eads
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- 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 <3>
- Haswell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haswell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haswell
- Haswell is located in Kiowa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 74 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Haswell <3>
- Chivington
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chivington
- Chivington is located in Kiowa County
- Lincoln County
- County Seat for Lincoln: Hugo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Lincoln County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Lincoln County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Lincoln County
- Nearest Communities to Sorrento ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sorrento.
- Boyero
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyero
- Boyero is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Boyero <3>
- Wezel ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Clifford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sorrento) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sorrento. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7806, Longitude: -102.9060 In this case, the coordinates for Sorrento 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |