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Nearest Communities to Wallace,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Wallace.<1>

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

Wallace is located in Wallace County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wallace County: Cheyenne (CO), Kit Carson (CO), Greeley, Logan, Sherman & Wichita.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wallace. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Wallace 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 Wallace (which is Wallace 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 Wallace

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

  • Wallace County   (where Wallace resides)
    • County Seat for Wallace:   Sharon Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wallace   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wallace.
      • Sharon Springs
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon Springs
        • Sharon Springs is located in Wallace County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 769 people
        • Former name for Sharon Springs:
        • Eagle Trail
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sharon Springs <3>
      • Sunland
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunland
        • Sunland is located in Wallace County
      • North ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North
        • North is located in Wallace County
      • Weskan
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Logan County
    • County Seat for Logan:   Oakley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wallace   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wallace.
      • McAllaster
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McAllaster. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAllaster
        • McAllaster is located in Logan County
      • Winona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winona have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
        • Winona is located in Logan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 155 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winona <3>
      • Russell Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Russell Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Springs
        • Russell Springs is located in Logan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
      • Page City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
        • Page City is located in Logan County
  • Sherman County
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Goodland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wallace   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wallace.
      • Edson
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
        • Edson is located in Sherman County
      • Goodland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Thomas County
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wallace   ...
      • Brownville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
        • Brownville is located in Thomas County
  • Wichita County
    • County Seat for Wichita:   Leoti
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wallace   ...
      • Selkirk ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Selkirk. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selkirk
        • Selkirk is located in Wichita County
        • Selkirk has also been known as:
        • Selkirk Station

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- Wallace) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wallace. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9127, Longitude: -101.5930       In this case, the coordinates for Wallace 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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