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Nearest Communities to Kalvesta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 Kalvesta.<1>

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

Kalvesta is located in Finney County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Finney County: Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane & Scott.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Kalvesta. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Finney 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 Kalvesta (which is Finney 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 Kalvesta

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

  • Finney County   (where Kalvesta resides)
    • County Website:   www.finneycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Finney:   Garden City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kalvesta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kalvesta.
      • Ravanna ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Pierceville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierceville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
        • Pierceville is located in Finney County
      • Mansfield
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mansfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield
        • Mansfield is located in Finney County
  • Ford County
    • County Website:   www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kalvesta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kalvesta.
      • Howell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Howell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
        • Howell is located in Ford County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Howell
        • From Kalvesta to Howell
      • Sears
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sears have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
        • Sears is located in Ford County
      • Dodge City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sayre
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sayre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayre
        • Sayre is located in Ford County
      • South Dodge
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Dodge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dodge
        • South Dodge is located in Ford County
      • Wright
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Dodge
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wilroads Gardens
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Gray County
    • County Seat for Gray:   Cimarron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kalvesta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kalvesta.
      • Cimarron
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Wettick
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wettick. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wettick
        • Wettick is located in Gray County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wettick
        • From Kalvesta to Wettick
      • Ingalls
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ingalls. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
        • Ingalls is located in Gray County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Ingalls
        • From Kalvesta to Ingalls
      • Charleston
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Ensign
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Haggard
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haggard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haggard
        • Haggard is located in Gray County
  • Hodgeman County
  • Lane County
  • Ness County
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kalvesta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kalvesta.
      • Harold
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harold have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold
        • Harold is located in Ness County
      • Beeler
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Laird
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • 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.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
        • Laird is located in Ness County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Laird
        • From Kalvesta to Laird

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- Kalvesta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kalvesta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0590, Longitude: -100.2877       In this case, the coordinates for Kalvesta 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>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>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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