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Nearest Communities to Plains,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Plains.<1>

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

Plains is located in Meade County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Seward & Beaver (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plains. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Plains (which is Meade 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 Plains

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

  • Meade County   (where Plains resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.meadeco.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Meade
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plains   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
      • Hobart
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Hobart is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart
      • Collano
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Collano is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collano
      • Missler
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Missler is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missler
      • Meade
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Meade is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meade
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,519 people
        • Meade has also been known as:
        • Meade City
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Meade <3>
      • Fowler
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Gray County
  • Haskell County
  • Seward County
    • County Website:   https://www.sewardcountyks.org/
    • County Seat for Seward:   Liberal
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plains   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
      • Kismet
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Kismet is located in Seward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kismet
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 423 people
      • Arkalon
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Arkalon is located in Seward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkalon
      • Hayne
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Hayne is located in Seward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayne
      • Liberal
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Stevens County
  • Beaver County
    • County Website:   https://beaver.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Beaver:   Beaver (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plains   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
      • Forgan
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Forgan is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forgan
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forgan <3>
      • Little Ponderosa
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Little Ponderosa is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Ponderosa
      • Floris
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Floris is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floris
      • Mocane
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Mocane is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mocane

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- Plains) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.