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Nearest Communities to Bloom,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 west 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 Bloom.<1>

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

Bloom is located in Ford County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ford County: Clark, Edwards, Gray, Hodgeman, Kiowa & Meade.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bloom. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Ford 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 Bloom (which is Ford 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 Bloom

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

  • Ford County   (where Bloom resides)
    • County Website:   www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bloom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
      • Kingsdown
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsdown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
        • Kingsdown is located in Ford County
      • Ford
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
        • Ford is located in Ford County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 212 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ford <4>
      • Wilroads
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wilroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads
        • Wilroads is located in Ford County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wilroads
        • From Bloom to Wilroads
      • Bucklin
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucklin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucklin
        • Bucklin is located in Ford County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 754 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bucklin <4>
      • Wilroads Gardens
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Fort Dodge
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • South Dodge
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Dodge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dodge
        • South Dodge is located in Ford County
      • Dodge City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Wright
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Sayre
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sayre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayre
        • Sayre is located in Ford County
      • Sears
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sears have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
        • Sears is located in Ford County
      • Windhorst
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Windthorst
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Howell
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Howell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
          • Howell is located in Ford County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Howell
          • From Bloom to Howell
        • Spearville
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Bellefont
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellefont have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefont
          • Bellefont is located in Ford County
  • Clark County
  • Comanche County
  • Gray County
    • County Seat for Gray:   Cimarron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bloom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
      • Ensign
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Haggard
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haggard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haggard
        • Haggard is located in Gray County
      • Wettick
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wettick. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wettick
        • Wettick is located in Gray County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wettick
        • From Bloom to Wettick
      • Montezuma
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Kiowa County
    • County Seat for Kiowa:   Greensburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bloom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
      • Mullinville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Joy
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
        • Joy is located in Kiowa County
  • Meade County
    • County Seat for Meade:   Meade
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bloom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
      • Fowler
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fowler have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler
        • Fowler is located in Meade County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 516 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fowler <4>
      • Meade
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)

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- Bloom) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bloom. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4867, Longitude: -99.8985    
<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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