Nearest Communities to Vilas,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vilas, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vilas:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Vilas is located in Baca County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baca County: Bent, Las Animas, Prowers, Morton (KS), Stanton (KS), Union (NM) & Cimarron (OK).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vilas. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Baca 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 Vilas (which is Baca 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 Vilas
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Baca County (where Vilas resides)
- County Website: https://www.bacacountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Baca: Springfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vilas ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vilas.
- Boston ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Boston is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
- Walsh
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Springfield
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Bisonte
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bisonte is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bisonte
- Two Buttes
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Minneapolis
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Minneapolis is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minneapolis
- Stonington
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Liberty
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Liberty is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Bartlett
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Bartlett is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartlett
- Campo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Buckeye Crossroads
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Buckeye Crossroads is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye Crossroads
- Lycan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lycan is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lycan
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Harboro
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Harboro is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harboro
- Midway
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Midway is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Edler
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Edler is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edler
- Prichett
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Prichett is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prichett
- Pritchett
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Graft
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Graft is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graft
- Brookfield ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Brookfield is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
- Antelope Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Antelope Springs is located in Baca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Springs
- Stanton County
- County Website: https://www.stantoncountyks.com/
- County Seat for Stanton: Johnson (KS)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vilas ...
- Saunders
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Saunders is located in Stanton County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
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 from Point A (ie- Vilas) 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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