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Nearest Communities to Shields,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 starting from Shields.<1>

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

Shields is located in Lane County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lane County: Finney, Gove, Hodgeman, Ness & Scott.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shields. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Lane 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 Shields (which is Lane 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 Shields

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

  • Lane County   (where Shields resides)
    • County Website:   http://www.lanecountyks.org/
    • County Seat for Lane:   Dighton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shields   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shields.
      • Dighton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Healy
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Alamota
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Alamota is located in Lane County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
      • Amy ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Amy is located in Lane County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amy
        • Former name for Amy:
        • Ellen
  • Gove County
    • County Website:   https://govecountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shields   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shields.
      • Alanthus ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
      • Gove City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • 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
  • Logan County
  • Ness County
    • County Website:   https://www.nesscountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shields   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shields.
      • Utica
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Beeler
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Beeler is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
      • Arnold
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
      • Laird
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Laird is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
      • Ransom
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Scott County
    • County Website:   https://scottcountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Scott:   Scott City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shields   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shields.
      • Manning
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Manning is located in Scott County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
      • Grigston
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Grigston is located in Scott County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grigston
      • Scott City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Hutchins
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Hutchins is located in Scott County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hutchins
      • Shallow Water
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Shallow Water is located in Scott County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shallow Water
  • Trego 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- Shields) 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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