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Nearest Communities to Wild Horse,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Wild Horse.<1>

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

Wild Horse 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 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wild Horse. 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 Wild Horse (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 Wild Horse

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

  • Cheyenne County   (where Wild Horse resides)
    • County Seat for Cheyenne:   Cheyenne Wells
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wild Horse   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wild Horse.
      • Sorrento
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sorrento have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorrento
        • Sorrento is located in Cheyenne County
      • Aroya
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aroya have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aroya
        • Aroya is located in Cheyenne County
      • Kit Carson
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Fort Big Spring
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
      • 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.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pearl
        • Mount Pearl is located in Cheyenne County
      • Firstview
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Firstview. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firstview
        • Firstview is located in Cheyenne County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Firstview
        • From Wild Horse to Firstview
  • Bent County
  • Kiowa County
    • County Seat for Kiowa:   Eads
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wild Horse   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wild Horse.
      • Galatea
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Galatea. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galatea
        • Galatea is located in Kiowa County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Galatea
        • From Wild Horse to Galatea
      • Hawkins
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hawkins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
        • Hawkins is located in Kiowa County
      • Eads
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Haswell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haswell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
  • Lincoln County

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- Wild Horse) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wild Horse. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8260, Longitude: -103.0065    
<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>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.




 

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