Nearest Communities to Selkirk,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Selkirk, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Selkirk:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Selkirk.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Selkirk<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Wichita County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wichita County: Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott & Wallace.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Selkirk. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Wichita County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Selkirk (which is Wichita 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 Selkirk
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Wichita County (where Selkirk resides)
- County Seat for Wichita: Leoti
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Wichita County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Wichita County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Wichita County
- Nearest Communities to Selkirk ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Selkirk.
- Leoti
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leoti have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leoti
- Leoti is located in Wichita County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,420 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leoti <6>
- Coronado
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Marienthal
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marienthal have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marienthal
- Marienthal is located in Wichita County
- Lydia
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Greeley County
- County Seat for Greeley: Tribune
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Greeley County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Greeley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Greeley County
- Nearest Communities to Selkirk ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Selkirk.
- Whitelaw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Tribune
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tribune have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribune
- Tribune is located in Greeley County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 724 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tribune <6>
- Horace
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Astor
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Walkinghood
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walkinghood have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkinghood
- Walkinghood is located in Greeley County
- Kanco ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Scott County
- County Seat for Scott: Scott City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Scott County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Scott County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Scott County
- Nearest Communities to Selkirk ...
- Wallace County
- County Seat for Wallace: Sharon Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Wallace County
- Nearest Communities to Selkirk ...
- Wallace
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallace have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
- Wallace is located in Wallace County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 61 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wallace <6>
- Wallace
- Kiowa County
- County Seat for Kiowa: Eads (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Kiowa County
- Nearest Communities to Selkirk ...
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- Selkirk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Selkirk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4734, Longitude: -101.5435 In this case, the coordinates for Selkirk have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | Selkirk is also known as Selkirk Station. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Selkirk. |
| <3> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Selkirk, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |