Nearest Communities to Wray,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wray, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wray:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wray is located in Yuma County and is the County Seat.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yuma County: Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Washington, Cheyenne (KS), Chase (NE) & Dundy (NE).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wray. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Yuma 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 Wray (which is Yuma 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 Wray
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Yuma County (where Wray resides)
- County Seat for Yuma: Wray
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Yuma County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Yuma County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Yuma County
- Nearest Communities to Wray ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wray.
- Laird
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
- Laird is located in Yuma County
- Robb
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Vernon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
- Vernon is located in Yuma County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vernon <4>
- Wauneta
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Beecher Island
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beecher Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beecher Island
- Beecher Island is located in Yuma County
- Eckley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckley
- Eckley is located in Yuma County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eckley <4>
- Alvin
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Armel
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Heartstrong
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heartstrong have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heartstrong
- Heartstrong is located in Yuma County
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Schramm
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Idalia
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Idalia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idalia
- Idalia is located in Yuma County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Idalia <4>
- Yuma
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yuma
- Yuma is located in Yuma County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,497 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yuma <4>
- Beverly Grove
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beverly Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Grove
- Beverly Grove is located in Yuma County
- Abarr
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Clarkville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarkville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkville
- Clarkville is located in Yuma County
- Schramm
- Cheyenne County
- County Website: www.cheyennecounty.org/
- County Seat for Cheyenne: Saint Francis (KS)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Cheyenne County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Cheyenne County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Cheyenne County
- Nearest Communities to Wray ...
- Saint Francis
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
- Saint Francis is located in Cheyenne County (KS)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,267 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Francis <4>
- Saint Francis
- Dundy County
- County Seat for Dundy: Benkelman (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Dundy County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Dundy County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Dundy County
- Nearest Communities to Wray ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wray.
- Sanborn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Haigler
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haigler
- Haigler is located in Dundy County (NE)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Haigler <4>
- Lamont ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Parks
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parks
- Parks is located in Dundy County (NE)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parks <4>
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- Wray) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wray. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0779, Longitude: -102.2276 |
| <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. |