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Nearest Communities to Plymell,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Plymell.<1>

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

Plymell 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 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plymell. Of these communities, 13 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 Plymell (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 Plymell

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

  • Finney County   (where Plymell resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.finneycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Finney:   Garden City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plymell   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plymell.
      • Mansfield
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Mansfield is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield
      • Garden City
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Pierceville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Pierceville is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
      • Quinby
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Quinby is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinby
      • Holcomb
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Rodkey ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Rodkey is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodkey
      • Lowe
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Lowe is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowe
      • Ritchal
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Ritchal is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritchal
      • Peterson
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Peterson is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peterson
      • Wolf
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Wolf is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf
      • Tennis
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Tennis is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennis
      • Gano
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Gano is located in Finney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gano
  • Grant County
  • Gray County
    • County Website:   https://www.grayco.org/
    • County Seat for Gray:   Cimarron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plymell   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plymell.
      • Charleston
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Charleston is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Ingalls
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Ingalls is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
      • Copeland
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Montezuma
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Cimarron
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Haskell County
  • Kearny County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Plymell) 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.
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