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Nearest Communities to Charleston,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Charleston.<1>

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

Charleston is located in Gray County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gray County: Finney, Ford, Haskell, Hodgeman & Meade.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Charleston. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Gray 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 Charleston (which is Gray 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 Charleston

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

  • Gray County   (where Charleston resides)
    • County Seat for Gray:   Cimarron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Ingalls
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingalls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
        • Ingalls is located in Gray County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
      • Cimarron
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Wettick
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wettick have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wettick
        • Wettick is located in Gray County
      • Montezuma
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Haggard
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • 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
      • Copeland
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Ensign
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensign
        • Ensign is located in Gray County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 184 people
  • Finney County
    • County Website:   www.finneycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Finney:   Garden City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Pierceville
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierceville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
        • Pierceville is located in Finney County
      • Mansfield
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mansfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield
        • Mansfield is located in Finney County
      • Garden City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Plymell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plymell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymell
        • Plymell is located in Finney County
      • Kalvesta
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kalvesta have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalvesta
        • Kalvesta is located in Finney County
      • Quinby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinby
        • Quinby is located in Finney County
      • Ravanna ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
        • Ravanna is located in Finney County
      • Rodkey ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rodkey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodkey
        • Rodkey is located in Finney County
      • Holcomb
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holcomb have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcomb
        • Holcomb is located in Finney County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,042 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holcomb <4>
      • Lowe
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowe
        • Lowe is located in Finney County
      • Ritchal
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ritchal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritchal
        • Ritchal is located in Finney County
      • Tennis
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tennis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennis
        • Tennis is located in Finney County
      • Gano
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gano have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gano
        • Gano is located in Finney County
      • Peterson
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peterson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peterson
        • Peterson is located in Finney County
  • Ford County
    • County Website:   www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Howell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
        • Howell is located in Ford County
      • Sayre
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • 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
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • 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
      • Dodge City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • South Dodge
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • 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
  • Haskell County
    • County Website:   www.haskellcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Haskell:   Sublette
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Tice
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tice have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tice
        • Tice is located in Haskell County
      • Sublette
        (30 miles [48.3 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 from Point A (ie- Charleston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Charleston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8646, Longitude: -100.5647    
<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.




 

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