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Nearest Communities to Menlo,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Menlo.<1>

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

Menlo is located in Thomas County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Thomas County: Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Menlo. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Thomas 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 Menlo (which is Thomas 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 Menlo

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

  • Thomas County   (where Menlo resides)
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Rexford
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Halford
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halford have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halford
        • Halford is located in Thomas County
      • Breton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Breton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breton
        • Breton is located in Thomas County
      • Gem
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gem have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem
        • Gem is located in Thomas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
      • Mingo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mingo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mingo
        • Mingo is located in Thomas County
      • Spica
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Spica. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spica
        • Spica is located in Thomas County
      • Colby
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colby have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
        • Colby is located in Thomas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,315 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colby <3>
      • Levant
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levant
        • Levant is located in Thomas County
  • Decatur County
    • County Seat for Decatur:   Oberlin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Leoville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leoville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leoville
        • Leoville is located in Decatur County
      • Dresden
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Allison ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Allison. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
        • Allison is located in Decatur County
  • Gove County
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Grinnell
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grinnell
        • Grinnell is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 226 people
        • Grinnell has also been known as:
        • Grinnette Springs
      • Grainfield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Park
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
        • Park is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
      • Gove City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
        • Gove City is located in Gove County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Gove City has also been known as:
        • Gove
  • Logan County
    • County Seat for Logan:   Oakley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Oakley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Monument
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monument
        • Monument is located in Logan County
      • Page City
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
        • Page City is located in Logan County
  • Rawlins County
    • County Seat for Rawlins:   Atwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Achilles
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Achilles have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Achilles
        • Achilles is located in Rawlins County
      • Chardon
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chardon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chardon
        • Chardon is located in Rawlins County
  • Sheridan County
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Hoxie
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Menlo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Menlo.
      • Seguin
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seguin have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seguin
        • Seguin is located in Sheridan County
      • Angelus
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Angelus have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angelus
        • Angelus is located in Sheridan County
      • Hoxie
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoxie
        • Hoxie is located in Sheridan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,191 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hoxie <3>
      • Selden
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selden
        • Selden is located in Sheridan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
      • Tasco
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tasco have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tasco
        • Tasco is located in Sheridan County
      • Lucerne
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lucerne have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
        • Lucerne is located in Sheridan County
      • Studley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Studley
        • Studley is located in Sheridan County

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- Menlo) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Menlo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3561, Longitude: -100.7243       In this case, the coordinates for Menlo 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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