Nearest Communities to McCracken,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to McCracken, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for McCracken:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
McCracken is located in Rush County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rush County: Barton, Ellis, Ness, Pawnee, Russell & Trego.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McCracken. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Rush 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 McCracken (which is Rush 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 McCracken
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rush County (where McCracken resides)
- County Website: https://rushcountykansas.org/
- County Seat for Rush: La Crosse
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Hargrave
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hargrave is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargrave
- Alexander
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Alexander is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
- Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
- Nekoma
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Nekoma is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nekoma
- La Crosse
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Liebenthal
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Liebenthal is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liebenthal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
- Rush Center
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bison
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Bison is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
- Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
- Loretta
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Loretta is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loretta
- Former names for Loretta:
- Illinois
- Marienfeld
- Timken
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Timken is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
- Schaffer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Schaffer is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schaffer
- Otis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Ellis County
- County Website: https://www.ellisco.net/
- County Seat for Ellis: Hays
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Schoenchen
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Schoenchen is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoenchen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
- Antonino
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Antonino is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antonino
- Munjor
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Munjor is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munjor
- Pfeifer
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Pfeifer is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pfeifer
- Hog Back
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Hog Back is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Back
- Yocemento
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Yocemento is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocemento
- Ellis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Hays
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Toulon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Toulon is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toulon
- Victoria
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Victoria is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,215 people
- Catharine
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Catharine is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catharine
- Catharine has also been known as:
- Catherine
- Hodgeman County
- County Website: https://hodgemancountyks.com/
- County Seat for Hodgeman: Jetmore
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Dungans Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Dungans Crossing is located in Hodgeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dungans Crossing
- Gray
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Gray is located in Hodgeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
- Ness County
- County Website: https://www.nesscountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Ness: Ness City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Brownell
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Bazine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bazine is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazine
- Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
- Osgood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Osgood is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
- Ransom
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Ness City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Arnold
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Arnold is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
- Laird
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Laird is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
- Harold
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Harold is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold
- Pawnee County
- County Website: https://www.pawneecountykansas.com/
- County Seat for Pawnee: Larned
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Vaughn
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Vaughn is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaughn
- Burdett
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Burdett is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett
- Population from the 2020 Census: 219 people
- Ash Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Ash Valley is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Valley
- Rozel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Rozel is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
- Bert Wettar
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Bert Wettar is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bert Wettar
- Sanford ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sanford is located in Pawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanford
- Trego County
- County Website: https://www.tregocountyks.com/
- County Seat for Trego: WaKeeney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to McCracken ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McCracken.
- Riga
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Riga is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
- Trego
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Trego is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
- Trego has also been known as:
- Trego Center
- Trego Tank
- Fort Downer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Downer is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Downer
- Ogallah
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Ogallah is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McCracken) 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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