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Nearest Communities to Sears,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 Sears.<1>

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

Sears is located in Ford County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ford County: Clark, Edwards, Gray, Hodgeman, Kiowa & Meade.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sears. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Ford 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 Sears (which is Ford 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 Sears

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

  • Ford County   (where Sears resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.fordcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Ford:   Dodge City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sears   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sears.
      • Dodge City
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • South Dodge
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • South Dodge is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dodge
      • Howell
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Howell is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
      • Sayre
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Sayre is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayre
      • Fort Dodge
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Fort Dodge is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Dodge
      • Wilroads Gardens
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Wilroads Gardens is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads Gardens
      • Wilroads
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Wilroads is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilroads
      • Wright
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Wright is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
      • Spearville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Spearville is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spearville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
      • Ford
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bloom
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Bloom is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloom
      • Bellefont
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Bellefont is located in Ford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefont
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Windhorst
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Windhorst is located in Ford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windhorst
        • Windthorst
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Windthorst is located in Ford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windthorst
        • Kingsdown
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Kingsdown is located in Ford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
        • Bucklin
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark County
  • Finney County
  • Gray County
    • County Website:   https://www.grayco.org/
    • County Seat for Gray:   Cimarron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sears   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sears.
      • Wettick
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Wettick is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wettick
      • Ensign
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Ensign is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensign
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 184 people
      • Cimarron
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Haggard
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Haggard is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haggard
      • Ingalls
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Ingalls is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
      • Montezuma
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Charleston
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Charleston is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
  • Hodgeman County
  • Meade 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sears) 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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