Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wolf Creek, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wolf Creek:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 Wolf Creek.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wolf Creek is located in Lincoln County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Ellsworth, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa, Russell & Saline.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wolf Creek. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Wolf Creek (which is Lincoln 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 Wolf Creek
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Wolf Creek resides)
- County Seat for Lincoln: Lincoln Center
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Sylvan Grove
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Sylvan Grove is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Grove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 269 people
- Sylvan Grove has also been known as:
- Sylvan Grove Station
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sylvan Grove <3>
- Grant
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Grant is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
- Denmark
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Denmark is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
- Vesper
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Vesper is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesper
- Ash Grove
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Ash Grove is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Grove
- Goldenrod
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Goldenrod is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldenrod
- Lincoln Center
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Lincoln Center is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,189 people
- Former name for Lincoln Center:
- Lincoln Centre
- Lincoln Center has also been known as:
- Lincoln
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lincoln Center <3>
- Quartzite
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Quartzite is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartzite
- Barton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Barton is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
- Edalgo
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Edalgo is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edalgo
- Shady Bend
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Shady Bend is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Bend
- Barnard
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Barnard is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
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- Westfall
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Westfall is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
- Beverly
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Beverly is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
- Juniata
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Juniata is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata
- Milo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Milo is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
- Barton County
- County Website: https://www.bartoncounty.org/
- County Seat for Barton: Great Bend
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Dubuque ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Dubuque was located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubuque
- Hitschmann
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Hitschmann is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitschmann
- Beaver
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Beaver is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
- Ellsworth County
- County Website: https://www.ellsworthcounty.org/
- County Seat for Ellsworth: Ellsworth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Wilson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Wilson is located in Ellsworth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 713 people
- Black Wolf ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Black Wolf was located in Ellsworth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Wolf
- Ellsworth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Kanopolis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Mitchell County
- County Website: https://www.mitchellcountykansas.com/
- County Seat for Mitchell: Beloit
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Hunter
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Victor
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Victor is located in Mitchell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victor
- Blue Hill
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Blue Hill is located in Mitchell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Hill
- Tipton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Osborne County
- County Website: https://www.osbornecounty.org/
- County Seat for Osborne: Osborne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Cheyenne
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cheyenne is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
- Cheyenne has also been known as:
- Cheyenne City
- Cheyenne Gap
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cheyenne Gap is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Gap
- Vincent
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Vincent is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
- Covert
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Covert is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covert
- Corinth
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Corinth is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth
- Forney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Forney is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forney
- Osborne
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Osborne is located in Osborne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,280 people
- Osborne has also been known as:
- Peru
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Osborne <3>
- Russell County
- County Website: https://www.russellcountykansas.com/
- County Seat for Russell: Russell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wolf Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wolf Creek.
- Lucas
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Luray
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Luray is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luray
- Population from the 2020 Census: 182 people
- Dorrance
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bunker Hill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Waldo
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- 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
- Homer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Homer is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homer
- Russell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Paradise
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Paradise is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
- Balta ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Balta was located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balta
- Fairport
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Fairport is located in Russell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
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 from Point A (ie- Wolf Creek) 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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