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Nearest Communities to Stratton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Stratton.<1>

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

Stratton is located in Kit Carson County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kit Carson County: Cheyenne, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma, Cheyenne (KS), Sherman (KS) & Wallace (KS).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Stratton. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Kit Carson 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 Stratton (which is Kit Carson 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 Stratton

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

  • Kit Carson County   (where Stratton resides)
    • County Website:   www.kitcarsoncounty.org/
    • County Seat for Kit Carson:   Burlington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stratton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stratton.
      • Vona
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vona
        • Vona is located in Kit Carson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vona <4>
      • Bethune
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • 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>
      • Seibert
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • West Burlington
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • 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
      • Burlington
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • 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
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peconic have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peconic
        • Peconic is located in Kit Carson County
      • Flagler
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Cheyenne County
    • County Seat for Cheyenne:   Cheyenne Wells
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stratton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stratton.
      • Mount Pearl
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • 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
      • Fort Big Spring
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • 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
  • Washington County
  • Yuma County
  • Sherman 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Stratton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Stratton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3029, Longitude: -102.6044       In this case, the coordinates for Stratton 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.




 

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