Nearest Communities to Joy,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Joy, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Joy:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Joy.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Joy is located in Kiowa County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kiowa County: Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford & Pratt.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Joy. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Kiowa 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 Joy (which is Kiowa 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 Joy
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Kiowa County (where Joy resides)
- County Website: https://www.kiowacountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Kiowa: Greensburg
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Mullinville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Greensburg
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Brenham ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Brenham is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenham
- Haviland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Belvidere
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Belvidere is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
- Wellsford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Wellsford is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsford
- Barber County
- Clark County
- County Website: https://www.clarkcountyks.com/
- County Seat for Clark: Ashland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- Lexington
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Lexington is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington
- Comanche County
- County Website: https://www.comanchecoks.org/
- County Seat for Comanche: Coldwater
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Wilmore
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wilmore is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
- Coldwater
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Protection
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Edwards County
- County Website: https://www.edwardscountyks.org/
- County Seat for Edwards: Kinsley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Hodges
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Hodges is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
- Williams ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Williams is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Centerview
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Centerview is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerview
- Fellsburg
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Fellsburg is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fellsburg
- Ardell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Ardell is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardell
- Kinsley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Trousdale ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Trousdale is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trousdale
- Offerle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Offerle is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Offerle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
- Lewis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Nettleton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Nettleton is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nettleton
- Belpre
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Belpre is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belpre
- Population from the 2020 Census: 81 people
- Ford County
- County Website: https://www.fordcounty.net/
- County Seat for Ford: Dodge City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Bucklin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Windhorst
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Windhorst is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windhorst
- Windthorst
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Windthorst is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windthorst
- Ford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Kingsdown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Kingsdown is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
- Bellefont
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Bellefont is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefont
- Spearville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Spearville is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spearville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
- Bloom
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Bloom is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloom
- Wilroads
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wilroads is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads
- Wright
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wright is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
- Wilroads Gardens
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Wilroads Gardens is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads Gardens
- Pratt County
- County Website: https://www.prattcounty.org/
- County Seat for Pratt: Pratt
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Croft
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Croft is located in Pratt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croft
- Springvale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Springvale is located in Pratt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springvale
- Springvale has also been known as:
- Springdale
- Cullison
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Cullison is located in Pratt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullison
- Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
- Hopewell ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hopewell is located in Pratt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Joy) 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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