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Nearest Communities to Fort Downer,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Fort Downer.<1>

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

Fort Downer is located in Trego County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Trego County: Ellis, Gove, Graham, Ness, Rooks, Rush & Sheridan.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Downer. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Trego 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 Fort Downer (which is Trego 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 Fort Downer

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

  • Trego County   (where Fort Downer resides)
    • County Seat for Trego:   WaKeeney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Downer.
      • Trego
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trego. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
        • Trego is located in Trego County
        • Trego has also been known as:
        • Trego Center
        • Trego Tank
      • WaKeeney
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Voda
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Voda have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voda
        • Voda is located in Trego County
      • Collyer
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Collyer have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
        • Collyer is located in Trego County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
      • Ogallah
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
        • Ogallah is located in Trego County
      • Riga
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riga have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
        • Riga is located in Trego County
  • Ellis County
    • County Website:   www.ellisco.net/
    • County Seat for Ellis:   Hays
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Downer.
      • Ellis
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Hog Back
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hog Back. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Back
        • Hog Back is located in Ellis County
      • Yocemento
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yocemento have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocemento
        • Yocemento is located in Ellis County
  • Gove County
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Downer.
      • Alanthus ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alanthus have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
      • Quinter
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinter have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinter
        • Quinter is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,073 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinter <4>
      • Park
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Park have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
        • Park is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
      • Gove City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
        • Gove City is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Gove City has also been known as:
        • Gove
  • Graham County
    • County Seat for Graham:   Hill City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Downer.
      • Saint Peter
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Peter have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Peter
        • Saint Peter is located in Graham County
      • Togo
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Togo have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
        • Togo is located in Graham County
        • Togo has also been known as:
        • Togoland
  • Lane County
    • County Seat for Lane:   Dighton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • Shields
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shields have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
        • Shields is located in Lane County
  • Ness County
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Downer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Downer.
      • Arnold
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arnold have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
      • Ransom
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Osgood
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Osgood have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
        • Osgood is located in Ness County
      • Utica
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Brownell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Laird
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Laird. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
        • Laird is located in Ness County
      • Ness City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Beeler
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
        • Beeler is located in Ness County
  • Rush County

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- Fort Downer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Downer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8408, Longitude: -99.9782       In this case, the coordinates for Fort Downer have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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.




 

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