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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 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.<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 Website:   https://thomascountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brownville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
      • Brewster
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Levant
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Levant is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levant
      • Mingo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Mingo is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mingo
      • Colby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Spica
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Spica is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spica
      • Halford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Halford is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halford
      • Gem
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Gem is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
  • Logan County
    • County Seat for Logan:   Oakley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brownville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
      • Winona
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • McAllaster
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • McAllaster is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAllaster
      • Page City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Page City is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
      • Monument
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Monument is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monument
      • Russell Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Russell Springs is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Springs
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
      • Oakley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Sherman County
    • County Website:   https://shermancountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Goodland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brownville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brownville.
      • Edson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Edson is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
      • Goodland
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Caruso
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Caruso is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caruso
      • Ruleton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Ruleton is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruleton
  • Wallace County

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 from Point A (ie- Brownville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.
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