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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 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 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 Website:   https://www.tregocountyks.com/
    • 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)
        • Trego is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
        • 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)
        • Voda is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voda
      • Collyer
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Collyer is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
      • Ogallah
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Ogallah is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
      • Riga
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Riga is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
  • Ellis County
    • County Website:   https://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)
        • Hog Back is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Back
      • Yocemento
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Yocemento is located in Ellis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocemento
  • Gove County
    • County Website:   https://govecountyks.gov/
    • 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)
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
      • Quinter
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Park
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Park is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
      • Gove City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Gove City is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Gove City has also been known as:
        • Gove
  • Graham County
  • Lane County
  • Ness County
    • County Website:   https://www.nesscountyks.gov/
    • 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)
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
      • Ransom
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Osgood
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Osgood is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
      • 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)
        • Laird is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
      • Ness City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Beeler
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Beeler is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
  • Rush County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' 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. 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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