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Nearest Communities to Buttermilk,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Buttermilk.<1>

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

Buttermilk is located in Comanche County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Comanche County: Barber, Clark, Kiowa, Harper (OK) & Woods (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buttermilk. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Comanche 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 Buttermilk (which is Comanche 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 Buttermilk

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

  • Comanche County   (where Buttermilk resides)
  • Barber County
    • County Seat for Barber:   Medicine Lodge
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buttermilk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buttermilk.
      • Aetna ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Deerhead
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Deerhead. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerhead
        • Deerhead is located in Barber County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Deerhead
        • From Buttermilk to Deerhead
      • Sun City
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun City have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun City
        • Sun City is located in Barber County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sun City <3>
      • Eldred ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Eldred. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldred
        • Eldred is located in Barber County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Eldred
        • From Buttermilk to Eldred
  • Clark County
  • Kiowa County
  • Harper County
  • Woods County
    • County Seat for Woods:   Alva (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buttermilk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buttermilk.
      • Plainview
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainview have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Plainview is located in Woods County (OK)
      • Edith
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edith have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
        • Edith is located in Woods County (OK)
      • Freedom
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freedom have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
        • Freedom is located in Woods County (OK)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Freedom <3>
      • Tegarden
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tegarden have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tegarden
        • Tegarden is located in Woods County (OK)
      • Winchester
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Winchester. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
        • Winchester is located in Woods County (OK)
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Winchester
        • From Buttermilk to Winchester
      • Haskew ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haskew came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskew
        • Haskew is located in Woods County (OK)
      • Cora
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cora have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora
        • Cora is located in Woods County (OK)
      • Fairvalley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairvalley have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairvalley
        • Fairvalley is located in Woods County (OK)

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 from Point A (ie- Buttermilk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buttermilk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1058, Longitude: -99.3249    
<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>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.
<5>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.
<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.




 

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