Nearest Communities to Quinter,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Quinter, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Quinter:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Quinter.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Quinter is located in Gove County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gove County: Graham, Lane, Logan, Ness, Scott, Sheridan, Thomas & Trego.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Quinter. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Gove 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 Quinter (which is Gove 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 Quinter
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Gove County (where Quinter resides)
- County Website: https://govecountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Gove: Gove City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Quinter ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Quinter.
- Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Park is located in Gove County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
- Grainfield
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Gove City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Gove City is located in Gove County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Gove City has also been known as:
- Gove
- Grinnell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Grinnell is located in Gove County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grinnell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 226 people
- Grinnell has also been known as:
- Grinnette Springs
- Alanthus ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Alanthus is located in Gove County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
- Graham County
- County Website: https://www.grahamcountyks.com/
- County Seat for Graham: Hill City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Quinter ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Quinter.
- Saint Peter
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Peter is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Peter
- Morland
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Togo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Togo is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
- Togo has also been known as:
- Togoland
- Penokee
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Penokee is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penokee
- Hill City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ness County
- Sheridan County
- County Website: https://www.sheridancountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Sheridan: Hoxie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Quinter ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Quinter.
- Studley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Studley is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Studley
- Tasco
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Tasco is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tasco
- Hoxie
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Angelus
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Angelus is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angelus
- Seguin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Seguin is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seguin
- Lucerne
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Lucerne is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
- Trego County
- County Website: https://www.tregocountyks.com/
- County Seat for Trego: WaKeeney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Quinter ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Quinter.
- Collyer
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Collyer is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
- Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
- Voda
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Voda is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voda
- WaKeeney
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Fort Downer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Downer is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Downer
- Trego
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Trego is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
- Trego has also been known as:
- Trego Center
- Trego Tank
- Ogallah
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Ogallah is located in Trego County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Quinter) 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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