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Nearest Communities to Protection,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Protection.<1>

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

Protection is located in Comanche County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Comanche County: Barber, Clark, Kiowa, Harper (OK) & Woods (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Protection. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Comanche 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 Protection (which is Comanche 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 Protection

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

  • Comanche County   (where Protection resides)
    • County Seat for Comanche:   Coldwater
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Protection   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Protection.
      • Coldwater
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Buttermilk
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buttermilk
        • Buttermilk is located in Comanche County
      • Wilmore
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore
        • Wilmore is located in Comanche County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
  • Barber County
  • Clark County
    • County Seat for Clark:   Ashland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Protection   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Protection.
      • Lexington
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lexington have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington
        • Lexington is located in Clark County
      • Sitka
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sitka have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sitka
        • Sitka is located in Clark County
      • Ashland
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Englewood
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Englewood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
        • Englewood is located in Clark County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
  • Ford County
    • County Website:   www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Protection   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Protection.
      • Bucklin
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucklin have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucklin
        • Bucklin is located in Ford County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 754 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bucklin <3>
      • Kingsdown
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsdown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
        • Kingsdown is located in Ford County
      • Bloom
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloom
        • Bloom is located in Ford County
  • Kiowa County
    • County Seat for Kiowa:   Greensburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Protection   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Protection.
      • Mullinville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mullinville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullinville
        • Mullinville is located in Kiowa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mullinville <3>
      • Joy
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joy have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
        • Joy is located in Kiowa County
      • Belvidere
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
        • Belvidere is located in Kiowa County
      • Greensburg
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greensburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greensburg
        • Greensburg is located in Kiowa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 779 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Greensburg <3>
  • Harper County
    • County Seat for Harper:   Buffalo (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Protection   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Protection.
      • Willard
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willard have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
        • Willard is located in Harper County (OK)
      • Charleston ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Charleston. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
        • Charleston is located in Harper County (OK)
      • Buffalo
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
        • Buffalo is located in Harper County (OK)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,265 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buffalo <3>
      • Selman
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selman
        • Selman is located in Harper County (OK)
  • Woods County

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- Protection) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Protection. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2019, Longitude: -99.4828    
<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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