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Nearest Communities to Bird City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Bird City.<1>

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

Bird City is located in Cheyenne County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cheyenne County: Kit Carson (CO), Yuma (CO), Rawlins, Sherman & Dundy (NE).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bird City. Of these communities, 16 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 Bird City (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 Bird City

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

  • Cheyenne County   (where Bird City resides)
  • Rawlins County
    • County Seat for Rawlins:   Atwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bird City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bird City.
      • McDonald
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McDonald have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
        • McDonald is located in Rawlins County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
      • Beardsley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beardsley
        • Beardsley is located in Rawlins County
      • Blakeman
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blakeman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeman
        • Blakeman is located in Rawlins County
      • Atwood
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Atwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwood
        • Atwood is located in Rawlins County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,208 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Atwood <3>
      • Chardon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chardon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chardon
        • Chardon is located in Rawlins County
      • North Atwood
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Atwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Atwood
        • North Atwood is located in Rawlins County
  • Sherman County
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Goodland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bird City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bird City.
      • Edson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
        • Edson is located in Sherman County
      • Goodland
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Thomas County
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bird City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bird City.
      • Brewster
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brewster have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
        • Brewster is located in Thomas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brewster <3>
      • Levant
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Levant have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levant
        • Levant is located in Thomas County
  • Yuma County
  • Dundy County
    • County Seat for Dundy:   Benkelman (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bird City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bird City.
      • Benkelman
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Rainbow Fountain Park
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow Fountain Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Fountain Park
        • Rainbow Fountain Park is located in Dundy County (NE)
      • Parks
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Max
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Haigler
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bird City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bird City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7497, Longitude: -101.5328    
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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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