Nearest Communities to Walker,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Walker, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Walker:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Walker.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Walker is located in Ellis County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ellis County: Barton, Graham, Ness, Osborne, Rooks, Rush, Russell & Trego.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 49 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Walker. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Ellis 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 Walker (which is Ellis 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 Walker
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Ellis County (where Walker resides)
- County Website: https://www.ellisco.net/
- County Seat for Ellis: Hays
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Victoria
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Victoria is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,215 people
- Emmeram
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Emmeram is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmeram
- Catharine
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Catharine is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catharine
- Catharine has also been known as:
- Catherine
- Toulon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Toulon is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toulon
- Munjor
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Munjor is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munjor
- Pfeifer
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Pfeifer is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pfeifer
- Hays
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Schoenchen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Schoenchen is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoenchen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
- Antonino
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Antonino is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antonino
- Turkville
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Turkville is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkville
- Yocemento
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Yocemento is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocemento
- Hog Back
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Hog Back is located in Ellis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Back
- Ellis
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Barton County
- County Website: https://www.bartoncounty.org/
- County Seat for Barton: Great Bend
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Galatia
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Galatia is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galatia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
- Millard
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Millard is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard
- Stickney
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Stickney is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stickney
- Susank
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Susank is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susank
- Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
- Olmitz
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Boyd ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Boyd is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
- Beaver
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Beaver is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
- Dubuque ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dubuque is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubuque
- Albert
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Hoisington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- South Hoisington
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- South Hoisington is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hoisington
- Osborne County
- County Website: https://www.osbornecounty.org/
- County Seat for Osborne: Osborne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Natoma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Vincent
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Vincent is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
- Rooks County
- County Website: https://www.rookscountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Rooks: Stockton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Codell
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Codell is located in Rooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Codell
- Former name for Codell:
- Florreyville
- Laton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Laton is located in Rooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laton
- Plainville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rush County
- County Website: https://rushcountykansas.org/
- County Seat for Rush: La Crosse
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Loretta
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Loretta is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loretta
- Former names for Loretta:
- Illinois
- Marienfeld
- Liebenthal
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Liebenthal is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liebenthal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
- Otis
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Bison
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Bison is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
- Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
- La Crosse
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Schaffer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Schaffer is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schaffer
- Timken
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Timken is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
- Hargrave
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hargrave is located in Rush County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargrave
- Rush Center
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Russell County
- County Website: https://www.russellcountykansas.com/
- County Seat for Russell: Russell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Walker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
- Gorham
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Balta ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Balta is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balta
- Russell
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Fairport
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Fairport is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
- Milberger
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Milberger is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milberger
- Homer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Homer is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homer
- Paradise
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Paradise is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
- Bunker Hill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Waldo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Waldo is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
- Former name for Waldo:
- Pleasant Run
- Dorrance
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Luray
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Luray is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luray
- Population from the 2020 Census: 182 people
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- Walker) 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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