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Nearest Communities to Peterson,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

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.

Peterson is located in Finney County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Finney County: Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane & Scott.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Peterson. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Finney 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 Peterson (which is Finney 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 Peterson

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

  • Finney County   (where Peterson resides)
    • County Website:   www.finneycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Finney:   Garden City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peterson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peterson.
      • Wolf
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wolf have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf
        • Wolf is located in Finney County
      • Ritchal
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ritchal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritchal
        • Ritchal is located in Finney County
      • Lowe
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowe
        • Lowe is located in Finney County
      • Holcomb
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holcomb have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcomb
        • Holcomb is located in Finney County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,042 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holcomb <4>
      • Rodkey ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rodkey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodkey
        • Rodkey is located in Finney County
      • Quinby
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinby
        • Quinby is located in Finney County
      • Garden City
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Tennis
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tennis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennis
        • Tennis is located in Finney County
      • Gano
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gano have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gano
        • Gano is located in Finney County
      • Friend
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friend have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
        • Friend is located in Finney County
      • Mansfield
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mansfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield
        • Mansfield is located in Finney County
      • Plymell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plymell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymell
        • Plymell is located in Finney County
      • Pierceville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierceville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
        • Pierceville is located in Finney County
  • Gray County
  • Hamilton County
  • Kearny County
    • County Seat for Kearny:   Lakin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peterson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peterson.
      • Deerfield
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deerfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
        • Deerfield is located in Kearny County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deerfield <4>
      • Lakin
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Hartland
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
        • Hartland is located in Kearny County
      • Sutton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sutton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutton
        • Sutton is located in Kearny County
  • Scott County
    • County Seat for Scott:   Scott City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peterson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peterson.
      • Chevron
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chevron have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chevron
        • Chevron is located in Scott County
      • Shallow Water
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shallow Water have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shallow Water
        • Shallow Water is located in Scott County
      • Hutchins
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hutchins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hutchins
        • Hutchins is located in Scott County
  • Wichita County
    • County Seat for Wichita:   Leoti
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peterson   ...
      • Lydia
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lydia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia
        • Lydia is located in Wichita County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Peterson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Peterson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0325, Longitude: -101.0671       In this case, the coordinates for Peterson 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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