Nearest Communities to Speed,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Speed, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Speed:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Speed.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Speed is located in Phillips County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Graham, Norton, Rooks, Smith, Franklin (NE) & Harlan (NE).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Speed. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Speed (which is Phillips 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 Speed
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Phillips County (where Speed resides)
- County Website: www.phillipscounty.org/
- County Seat for Phillips: Phillipsburg
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Phillips County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Phillips County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Phillips County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Speed.
- Glade
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glade
- Glade is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
- Phillipsburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Phillipsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg
- Phillipsburg is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,420 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Phillipsburg <4>
- Logan
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Logan is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 529 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Logan <4>
- Stuttgart
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuttgart
- Stuttgart is located in Phillips County
- Gretna
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast) - Prairie View
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie View
- Prairie View is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
- Kirwin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirwin
- Kirwin is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirwin <4>
- Agra
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agra
- Agra is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 238 people
- Long Island
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Island
- Long Island is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
- Woodruff
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Graham County
- County Seat for Graham: Hill City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Graham County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Graham County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Graham County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Speed.
- Nicodemus
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nicodemus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicodemus
- Nicodemus is located in Graham County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nicodemus <4>
- Roscoe
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe
- Roscoe is located in Graham County
- Smithfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smithfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithfield
- Smithfield is located in Graham County
- Bogue
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
- Bogue is located in Graham County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
- Bogue has also been known as:
- Wildhorse
- Norton County
- County Website: www.nortoncountyks.org/
- County Seat for Norton: Norton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Norton County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Norton County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Norton County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Speed.
- Densmore
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Densmore
- Densmore is located in Norton County
- Almena
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Calvert
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Edmond
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Norton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
- Norton is located in Norton County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,709 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Norton <4>
- Osborne County
- County Seat for Osborne: Osborne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Osborne County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Osborne County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Osborne County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- Rooks County
- County Website: www.rookscounty.net/
- County Seat for Rooks: Stockton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Rooks County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Rooks County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Rooks County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Speed.
- Webster
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Stockton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockton
- Stockton is located in Rooks County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,234 people
- Former name for Stockton:
- Stocktown
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stockton <4>
- Woodston
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodston
- Woodston is located in Rooks County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
- Woodston has also been known as:
- Woodston Saw
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Woodston <4>
- Damar
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damar
- Damar is located in Rooks County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Damar <4>
- Palco
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palco
- Palco is located in Rooks County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 262 people
- Zurich
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Smith County
- County Seat for Smith: Smith Center
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Kansas
- Smith County
- From Family Search:
- State of Kansas
- Smith County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Kansas
- Smith County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Speed.
- Claudell
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claudell
- Claudell is located in Smith County
- Kensington
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kensington
- Kensington is located in Smith County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 433 people
- Cedar
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Athol
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
- Athol is located in Smith County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
- Gaylord
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gaylord have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaylord
- Gaylord is located in Smith County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gaylord <4>
- Harlan County
- County Seat for Harlan: Alma (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Harlan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Harlan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Harlan County
- Nearest Communities to Speed ...
- Alma
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
- Alma is located in Harlan County (NE)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,116 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alma <4>
- Alma
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 from Point A (ie- Speed) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Speed. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6766, Longitude: -99.4211 In this case, the coordinates for Speed have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |