Nearest Communities to Alanthus,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Alanthus, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Alanthus:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 Alanthus.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Alanthus is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Gove County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gove County: Graham, Lane, Logan, Ness, Scott, Sheridan, Thomas & Trego.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alanthus. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Gove County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Alanthus (which is Gove 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 Alanthus
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Gove County (where Alanthus resides)
- County Seat for Gove: Gove City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- Nearest Communities to Alanthus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alanthus.
- Gove City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
- Gove City is located in Gove County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Gove City has also been known as:
- Gove
- Quinter
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinter have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinter
- Quinter is located in Gove County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,073 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinter <5>
- Park
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lane County
- County Seat for Lane: Dighton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Lane County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Lane County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Lane County
- Nearest Communities to Alanthus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alanthus.
- Shields
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Alamota
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Dighton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dighton
- Dighton is located in Lane County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 891 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dighton <5>
- Healy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Healy have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healy
- Healy is located in Lane County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Healy <5>
- Amy ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Ness County
- County Seat for Ness: Ness City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Ness County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Ness County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Ness County
- Nearest Communities to Alanthus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alanthus.
- Utica
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utica
- Utica is located in Ness County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Utica <5>
- Arnold
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Ransom
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ransom
- Ransom is located in Ness County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 262 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ransom <5>
- Osgood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east) - Beeler
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
- Beeler is located in Ness County
- Laird
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Ness City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ness City
- Ness City is located in Ness County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,311 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ness City <5>
- Brownell
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownell
- Brownell is located in Ness County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brownell <5>
- Trego County
- County Seat for Trego: WaKeeney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Trego County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Trego County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Trego County
- Nearest Communities to Alanthus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alanthus.
- Fort Downer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Downer have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Downer
- Fort Downer is located in Trego County
- Trego
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Collyer
(23 miles [37 km] to the north) - Voda
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - WaKeeney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for WaKeeney
- WaKeeney is located in Trego County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,738 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for WaKeeney <5>
- Ogallah
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
- Ogallah is located in Trego County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Alanthus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alanthus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7000, Longitude: -100.1671 In this case, the coordinates for Alanthus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alanthus, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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. |
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