Nearest Communities to Weskan,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Weskan, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Weskan:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Weskan.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Weskan 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 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Weskan. Of these communities, 10 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 Weskan (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 Weskan
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Wallace County (where Weskan resides)
- 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 Weskan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Weskan.
- Sunland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Sharon Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- 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 <4>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Sharon Springs
- From Weskan to Sharon Springs
- North ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Wallace
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- 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 Weskan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Weskan.
- Astor
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Kanco ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kanco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanco
- Kanco is located in Greeley County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Kanco
- From Weskan to Kanco
- Walkinghood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walkinghood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkinghood
- Walkinghood is located in Greeley County
- Horace
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Tribune
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tribune have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Cheyenne County
- County Seat for Cheyenne: Cheyenne Wells (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Cheyenne County
- Nearest Communities to Weskan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Weskan.
- Arapahoe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arapahoe
- Arapahoe is located in Cheyenne County (CO)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arapahoe <4>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Arapahoe
- From Weskan to Arapahoe
- Old Wells
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Cheyenne Wells
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cheyenne Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Wells
- Cheyenne Wells is located in Cheyenne County (CO)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 815 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cheyenne Wells <4>
- 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 Weskan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Weskan.
- Towner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Stuart
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Weskan) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Weskan. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8671, Longitude: -101.9637 |
| <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. |
| <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. |