Nearest Communities to Oakley,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Oakley, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Oakley:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Oakley.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Oakley is primarily located in Logan County and is the County Seat. A portion of Oakley extends into Gove County and Thomas 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 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oakley. Of these communities, 17 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 Oakley (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 Oakley
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Logan County (where Oakley resides)
- County Seat for Logan: Oakley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Logan County
- Nearest Communities to Oakley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
- Monument
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monument
- Monument is located in Logan County
- Page City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
- Page City is located in Logan County
- Winona
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Russell Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Russell Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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
- Elkader
(23 miles [37 km] to the south) - McAllaster
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McAllaster have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAllaster
- McAllaster is located in Logan County
- Gove County
- County Seat for Gove: Gove City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Gove County
- Nearest Communities to Oakley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
- Grinnell
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- 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
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grainfield
- Grainfield is located in Gove County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 241 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grainfield <4>
- Gove City
(22 miles [35.4 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
- Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Sheridan County
- County Seat for Sheridan: Hoxie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Sheridan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Sheridan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Sheridan County
- Nearest Communities to Oakley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
- Angelus
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast) - Seguin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Hoxie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- 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 <4>
- Thomas County
- County Seat for Thomas: Colby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Thomas County
- Nearest Communities to Oakley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
- Spica
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest) - Mingo
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest) - Halford
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north) - Menlo
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Gem
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north) - Colby
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Breton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Rexford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexford
- Rexford is located in Thomas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 223 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rexford <4>
- Levant
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Brownville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
- Brownville is located in Thomas 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- Oakley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1288, Longitude: -100.8537 |
| <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. |
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