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Nearest Communities to Big Bow,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 starting from Big Bow.<1>

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

Big Bow is located in Stanton County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stanton County: Baca (CO), Prowers (CO), Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton & Stevens.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Bow. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Stanton 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 Big Bow (which is Stanton 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 Big Bow

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

  • Stanton County   (where Big Bow resides)
    • County Seat for Stanton:   Johnson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bow.
      • Julian
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Julian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
        • Julian is located in Stanton County
      • Johnson
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Platt City ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Platt City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platt City
        • Platt City is located in Stanton County
        • Platt City has also been known as:
        • Platt
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Platt City
        • From Big Bow to Platt City
      • Manter
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manter
        • Manter is located in Stanton County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manter <4>
      • Saunders
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saunders have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
        • Saunders is located in Stanton County
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   www.grantcoks.org/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Ulysses
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bow.
      • Stano
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stano have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stano
        • Stano is located in Grant County
      • Ulysses
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Hickok
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hickok have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickok
        • Hickok is located in Grant County
      • Ryus
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ryus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryus
        • Ryus is located in Grant County
  • Hamilton County
    • County Seat for Hamilton:   Syracuse
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bow.
      • Hatton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hatton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatton
        • Hatton is located in Hamilton County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Hatton
        • From Big Bow to Hatton
      • Kendall
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kendall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall
        • Kendall is located in Hamilton County
      • Mayline
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mayline have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayline
        • Mayline is located in Hamilton County
      • Syracuse
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Kearny County
    • County Seat for Kearny:   Lakin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bow.
      • Sutton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sutton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutton
        • Sutton is located in Kearny County
      • Hartland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
        • Hartland is located in Kearny County
      • Lakin
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Morton County
  • Stevens County
    • County Seat for Stevens:   Hugoton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bow.
      • Moscow
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moscow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
        • Moscow is located in Stevens County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
        • Former name for Moscow:
        • Mosco
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moscow <4>
      • Cave
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cave have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave
        • Cave is located in Stevens County
      • Hugoton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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- Big Bow) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Bow. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5647, Longitude: -101.5616    
<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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