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Nearest Communities to Hill City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>

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

Hill City is located in Graham County and is the County Seat.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Graham County: Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Sheridan & Trego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hill City. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Graham 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 Hill City (which is Graham 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 Hill City

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

  • Graham County   (where Hill City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.grahamcountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Hill City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hill City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hill City.
      • Penokee
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Penokee is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penokee
      • Smithfield
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Smithfield is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithfield
      • Bogue
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Bogue is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
        • Bogue has also been known as:
        • Wildhorse
      • Roscoe
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Roscoe is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe
      • Nicodemus
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Togo
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Togo is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
        • Togo has also been known as:
        • Togoland
      • Morland
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Saint Peter
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Saint Peter is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Peter
  • Decatur County
  • Gove County
  • Norton County
    • County Website:   https://www.nortoncountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Norton:   Norton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hill City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hill City.
      • Edmond
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Edmond is located in Norton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmond
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
        • Edmond has also been known as:
        • Edmond City
      • Lenora
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Densmore
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Densmore is located in Norton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Densmore
      • New Almelo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • New Almelo is located in Norton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Almelo
      • Dellvale
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Dellvale is located in Norton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellvale
      • Oronoque
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Oronoque is located in Norton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oronoque
  • Phillips County
  • Rooks County
    • County Website:   https://www.rookscountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Rooks:   Stockton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hill City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hill City.
      • Damar
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Palco
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Palco is located in Rooks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palco
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 262 people
      • Webster
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Webster is located in Rooks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster
      • Zurich
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Zurich is located in Rooks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zurich
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
      • Plainville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Sheridan County
  • Trego County
    • County Website:   https://www.tregocountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Trego:   WaKeeney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hill City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hill City.
      • WaKeeney
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Voda
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Voda is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voda
      • Ogallah
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Ogallah is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
      • Collyer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Collyer is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
      • Riga
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Riga is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hill City) 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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