Nearest Communities to Bucklin,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bucklin, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bucklin:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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 starting from Bucklin.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bucklin 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 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bucklin. Of these communities, 19 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 Bucklin (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 Bucklin
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Ford County (where Bucklin resides)
- County Website: https://www.fordcounty.net/
- County Seat for Ford: Dodge City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bucklin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bucklin.
- Kingsdown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Kingsdown is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
- Ford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Bloom
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Bloom is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloom
- Windhorst
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Windhorst is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windhorst
- Windthorst
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Windthorst is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windthorst
- Wilroads
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Wilroads is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads
- Fort Dodge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Dodge is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Dodge
- Wilroads Gardens
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wilroads Gardens is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads Gardens
- Spearville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Spearville is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spearville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
- Wright
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wright is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
- Bellefont
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Bellefont is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefont
- South Dodge
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- South Dodge is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dodge
- Dodge City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Sears
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sears is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
- Clark County
- County Website: https://www.clarkcountyks.com/
- County Seat for Clark: Ashland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bucklin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bucklin.
- Lexington
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Lexington is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington
- Minneola
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Ashland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Sitka
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Sitka is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sitka
- Comanche County
- County Website: https://www.comanchecoks.org/
- County Seat for Comanche: Coldwater
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bucklin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bucklin.
- Protection
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Coldwater
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wilmore
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Wilmore is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
- Edwards County
- County Website: https://www.edwardscountyks.org/
- County Seat for Edwards: Kinsley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bucklin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bucklin.
- Hodges
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Hodges is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
- Offerle
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Offerle is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Offerle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
- Williams ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Williams is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Ardell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Ardell is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardell
- Centerview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Centerview is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerview
- Kinsley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Fellsburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Fellsburg is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fellsburg
- Kiowa County
- County Website: https://www.kiowacountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Kiowa: Greensburg
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bucklin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bucklin.
- Mullinville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Joy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Joy is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
- Greensburg
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Brenham ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Brenham is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenham
- Haviland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bucklin) 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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