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Nearest Communities to Laird,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Laird is located in Ness County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ness County: Ellis, Gove, Hodgeman, Lane, Pawnee, Rush & Trego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Laird. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Ness 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 Laird (which is Ness 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 Laird

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

  • Ness County   (where Laird resides)
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Laird.
      • Beeler
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Ness City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Arnold
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arnold have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
      • Harold
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harold have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold
        • Harold is located in Ness County
      • Ransom
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Utica
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Osgood
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Osgood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
        • Osgood is located in Ness County
      • Riverside
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverside have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
        • Riverside is located in Ness County
      • Bazine
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bazine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazine
        • Bazine is located in Ness County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
      • Brownell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Finney County
  • Gove County
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • Alanthus ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alanthus have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
  • Hodgeman County
    • County Seat for Hodgeman:   Jetmore
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Laird.
      • Jetmore
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Dungans Crossing
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dungans Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dungans Crossing
        • Dungans Crossing is located in Hodgeman County
      • Bosse
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bosse have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosse
        • Bosse is located in Hodgeman County
      • Hanston
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gray
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
        • Gray is located in Hodgeman County
  • Lane County
    • County Seat for Lane:   Dighton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Laird.
      • Alamota
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamota have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
        • Alamota is located in Lane County
      • Dighton
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Shields
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shields have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
        • Shields is located in Lane County
      • Amy ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amy have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amy
        • Amy is located in Lane County
        • Former name for Amy:
        • Ellen
  • Rush County
    • County Seat for Rush:   La Crosse
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Laird.
      • Alexander
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alexander. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
        • Alexander is located in Rush County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Alexander
        • From Laird to Alexander
      • McCracken
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCracken have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCracken
        • McCracken is located in Rush County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 171 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCracken <3>
  • Trego County
    • County Seat for Trego:   WaKeeney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Laird   ...
      • Fort Downer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Downer have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Downer
        • Fort Downer is located in Trego County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Laird) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Laird. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4498, Longitude: -100.0545       In this case, the coordinates for Laird 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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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