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Nearest Communities to Monument,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 starting from Monument.<1>

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

Monument is located in Logan County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Logan County: Gove, Scott, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace & Wichita.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Monument. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Logan 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 Monument (which is Logan 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 Monument

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

  • Logan County   (where Monument resides)
    • County Seat for Logan:   Oakley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Monument   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Monument.
      • Page City
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Oakley
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Winona
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winona have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
        • Winona is located in Logan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 155 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winona <3>
      • Russell Springs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Russell Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Springs
        • Russell Springs is located in Logan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
      • McAllaster
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McAllaster. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAllaster
        • McAllaster is located in Logan County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to McAllaster
        • From Monument to McAllaster
      • Elkader
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Elkader. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkader
        • Elkader is located in Logan County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Elkader
        • From Monument to Elkader
  • Gove County
  • Sheridan County
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Hoxie
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Monument   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Monument.
      • Angelus
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • 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
      • Seguin
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
  • Thomas County
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Monument   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Monument.
      • Spica
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Spica
        • From Monument to Spica
      • Mingo
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • 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
      • Colby
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • 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>
      • Halford
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • 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
      • Brownville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
        • Brownville is located in Thomas County
      • Levant
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Gem
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • 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
      • Menlo
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Menlo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menlo
        • Menlo is located in Thomas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
      • Breton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
      • Brewster
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brewster have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
        • Brewster is located in Thomas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brewster <3>
      • Rexford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Monument) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monument. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1064, Longitude: -101.0102    
<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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