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Nearest Communities to Rolla,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Rolla.<1>

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

Rolla is located in Morton County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Morton County: Baca (CO), Stanton, Stevens, Cimarron (OK) & Texas (OK).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rolla. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Morton 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 Rolla (which is Morton 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 Rolla

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

  • Morton County   (where Rolla resides)
    • County Website:   https://mtcoks.com/
    • County Seat for Morton:   Elkhart
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rolla   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rolla.
      • Wilburton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Wilburton is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilburton
      • Richfield
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Richfield is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
      • Elkhart
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Grant County
  • Stanton County
  • Stevens County
  • Baca County
  • Cimarron County
  • Texas County
    • County Website:   https://texas.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Texas:   Guymon (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rolla   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rolla.
      • Hough
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Hough is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hough
      • Hovey
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Hovey is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovey
      • Straight
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Straight is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight
      • Mouser
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Mouser is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouser
      • Muncy
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Muncy is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muncy
      • Midway
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Libbey
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Libbey is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libbey
      • Unity
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Unity is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
      • Eva
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Eva is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eva
      • Hooker
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Hooker is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hooker <3>
      • Panoma
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Panoma is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panoma
      • Optima
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Optima is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Optima
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 371 people
      • Doolin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Doolin is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doolin
      • Guymon
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Guymon is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guymon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,010 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Guymon <3>

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rolla) 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.