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Nearest Communities to Dighton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 Dighton.<1>

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

Dighton is located in Lane County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lane County: Finney, Gove, Hodgeman, Ness & Scott.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dighton. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Lane 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 Dighton (which is Lane 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 Dighton

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

  • Lane County   (where Dighton resides)
    • County Seat for Lane:   Dighton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dighton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dighton.
      • Amy ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amy
        • Amy is located in Lane County
        • Former name for Amy:
        • Ellen
      • Alamota
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamota have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
        • Alamota is located in Lane County
      • Shields
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shields have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
        • Shields is located in Lane County
      • Healy
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Healy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healy
        • Healy is located in Lane County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Healy <4>
  • Finney County
  • Gove County
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dighton   ...
      • Alanthus ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alanthus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
  • Logan County
  • Ness County
  • Scott County
    • County Seat for Scott:   Scott City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dighton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dighton.
      • Grigston
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grigston have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grigston
        • Grigston is located in Scott County
      • Manning
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Manning. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
        • Manning is located in Scott County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Manning
        • From Dighton to Manning
      • Scott City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scott City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott City
        • Scott City is located in Scott County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,736 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Scott City <4>
      • Hutchins
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hutchins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hutchins
        • Hutchins is located in Scott County
      • Shallow Water
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shallow Water have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shallow Water
        • Shallow Water is located in Scott County
      • Chevron
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chevron have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chevron
        • Chevron is located in Scott County

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- Dighton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dighton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4820, Longitude: -100.4670    
<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.




 

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