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Nearest Communities to Balta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Balta is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Russell County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Russell County: Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Osborne, Rooks & Rush.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 56 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Balta. Of these communities, 45 are located in counties other than Russell 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 Balta (which is Russell 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 Balta

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

  • Russell County   (where Balta resides)
  • Barton County
  • Ellis County
    • County Website:   https://www.ellisco.net/
    • County Seat for Ellis:   Hays
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Walker
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Walker is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
      • Emmeram
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Victoria
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Victoria is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,215 people
      • Catharine
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Catharine is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catharine
        • Catharine has also been known as:
        • Catherine
      • Pfeifer
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Pfeifer is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pfeifer
      • Toulon
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Munjor
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Munjor is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munjor
      • Hays
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Turkville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Schoenchen
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Schoenchen is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoenchen
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
      • Antonino
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Antonino is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antonino
      • Yocemento
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Yocemento is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocemento
      • Hog Back
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Ellsworth County
  • Lincoln County
  • Osborne County
    • County Website:   https://www.osbornecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Osborne:   Osborne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Natoma
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Vincent
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Vincent is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
      • Cheyenne
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Cheyenne is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
        • Cheyenne has also been known as:
        • Cheyenne City
      • Covert
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Covert is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covert
      • Cheyenne Gap
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Cheyenne Gap is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Gap
  • Rooks County
  • Rush County
    • County Website:   https://rushcountykansas.org/
    • County Seat for Rush:   La Crosse
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Loretta
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Otis
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Liebenthal
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Liebenthal is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liebenthal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
      • Bison
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Bison is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
      • Schaffer
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Schaffer is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schaffer

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Balta) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Balta, 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.
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