Nearest Communities to Brownville,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Brownville, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Brownville:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Brownville is located in Thomas County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Thomas County: Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan & Sherman.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Brownville. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Thomas 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 Brownville (which is Thomas 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 Brownville
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Thomas County (where Brownville resides)
- County Seat for Thomas: Colby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- Nearest Communities to Brownville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
- Brewster
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brewster have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Levant
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levant
- Levant is located in Thomas County
- Mingo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Colby
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
- Colby is located in Thomas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,315 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colby <4>
- Spica
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Halford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Gem
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Logan County
- County Seat for Logan: Oakley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- Nearest Communities to Brownville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
- Winona
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
- Winona is located in Logan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 155 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winona <4>
- McAllaster
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McAllaster. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAllaster
- McAllaster is located in Logan County
- Page City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
- Page City is located in Logan County
- Monument
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monument
- Monument is located in Logan County
- Russell Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Russell Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Springs
- Russell Springs is located in Logan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
- Oakley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
- Oakley is located in Logan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,030 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oakley <4>
- Sherman County
- County Seat for Sherman: Goodland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Sherman County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Sherman County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Sherman County
- Nearest Communities to Brownville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
- Edson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Goodland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
- Goodland is located in Sherman County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,301 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodland <4>
- Caruso
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Ruleton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Wallace County
- County Seat for Wallace: Sharon Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- Nearest Communities to Brownville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
- North ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Wallace
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
- Wallace is located in Wallace County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 61 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wallace <4>
- Sharon Springs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon Springs
- Sharon Springs is located in Wallace County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 769 people
- Former name for Sharon Springs:
- Eagle Trail
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sharon Springs <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Brownville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brownville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1861, Longitude: -101.3535 In this case, the coordinates for Brownville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <6> | If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database. |