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Nearest Communities to Jacinto,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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

Jacinto is located in Kimball County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kimball County: Logan (CO), Weld (CO), Banner, Cheyenne & Laramie (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jacinto. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Kimball 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 Jacinto (which is Kimball 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 Jacinto

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

  • Kimball County   (where Jacinto resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kimballcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Kimball:   Kimball
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacinto   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacinto.
      • Dix
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Dix is also located in Kimball County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dix <3>
      • Owasco
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Owasco is also located in Kimball County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owasco
      • Kimball
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Kimball is also located in Kimball County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,282 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kimball <3>
      • Stahlas North Court
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Stahlas North Court is also located in Kimball County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stahlas North Court
      • Oliver
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Oliver is also located in Kimball County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver
      • Bushnell
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Banner County
  • Cheyenne County
    • County Website:   https://www.cheyennecountyne.net/
    • County Seat for Cheyenne:   Sidney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacinto   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacinto.
      • Potter
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Point of Rocks
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Point of Rocks is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Rocks
      • Mount Vernon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Mount Vernon is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
      • Brownson
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Brownson is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownson
      • Lorenzo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Lorenzo is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorenzo
      • Huntsman
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Huntsman is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsman
      • Sidney
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Gurley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Dalton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Colton
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Colton is located in Cheyenne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colton
  • Morrill County
  • Logan County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Jacinto) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.