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Nearest Communities to Lexington,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.

Lexington is located in Clark County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clark County: Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Meade, Beaver (OK) & Harper (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lexington. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Clark 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 Lexington (which is Clark 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 Lexington

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

  • Clark County   (where Lexington resides)
    • County Seat for Clark:   Ashland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lexington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lexington.
      • Sitka
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sitka have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sitka
        • Sitka is located in Clark County
      • Ashland
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Minneola
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Englewood
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Englewood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
        • Englewood is located in Clark County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
  • Comanche County
    • County Seat for Comanche:   Coldwater
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lexington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lexington.
      • Protection
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Coldwater
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Buttermilk
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buttermilk
        • Buttermilk is located in Comanche County
      • Wilmore
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore
        • Wilmore is located in Comanche County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
  • Ford County
    • County Website:   www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lexington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lexington.
      • Bucklin
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucklin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucklin
        • Bucklin is located in Ford County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 754 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bucklin <4>
      • Kingsdown
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsdown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
        • Kingsdown is located in Ford County
      • Bloom
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloom
        • Bloom is located in Ford County
      • Ford
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
        • Ford is located in Ford County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 212 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ford <4>
  • Kiowa County
    • County Seat for Kiowa:   Greensburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lexington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lexington.
      • Mullinville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mullinville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullinville
        • Mullinville is located in Kiowa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mullinville <4>
      • Joy
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
        • Joy is located in Kiowa County
      • Greensburg
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greensburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greensburg
        • Greensburg is located in Kiowa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 779 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Greensburg <4>
      • Belvidere
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
        • Belvidere is located in Kiowa County
      • Brenham ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brenham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenham
        • Brenham is located in Kiowa County
  • Harper County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lexington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lexington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2939, Longitude: -99.5996       In this case, the coordinates for Lexington 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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