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Nearest Communities to Marion,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Marion is located in Red Willow County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Red Willow County: Decatur (KS), Rawlins (KS), Frontier, Furnas & Hitchcock.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Marion. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Red Willow 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 Marion (which is Red Willow 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 Marion

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

  • Red Willow County   (where Marion resides)
    • County Website:   https://redwillowcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Red Willow:   McCook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion.
      • Danbury
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Lebanon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Red Willow
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Red Willow is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Willow
      • Shippee
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Shippee is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shippee
      • Indianola
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • McCook
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • McCook is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCook
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,499 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCook <3>
      • Bartley
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Perry
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Perry is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
  • Frontier County
  • Furnas County
  • Hitchcock County
  • Decatur County
    • County Website:   https://www.dccoks.org/
    • County Seat for Decatur:   Oberlin (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion.
      • Cedar Bluffs
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Cedar Bluffs is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluffs
      • Traer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Traer is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Traer
      • Oberlin
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Oberlin is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oberlin
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,669 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oberlin <3>
      • Lyle
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Lyle is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyle
      • Kanona
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Kanona is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanona
      • Norcatur
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Norcatur is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norcatur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
      • Jennings
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Jennings is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
      • Dresden
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Leoville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Leoville is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leoville
  • Norton County
    • County Website:   https://www.nortoncountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Norton:   Norton (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion.
      • Devizes
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Devizes is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devizes
      • Reager
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Reager is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reager
      • Rockwell City ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Rockwell City is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwell City
      • Clayton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Clayton is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people
      • Dellvale
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Dellvale is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellvale
      • Oronoque
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Oronoque is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oronoque
  • Rawlins County
    • County Website:   https://rawlinscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Rawlins:   Atwood (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion.
      • Herndon
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Herndon is located in Rawlins County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
      • Midway
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Midway is located in Rawlins County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Ludell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Ludell is located in Rawlins County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludell
      • Achilles
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Achilles is located in Rawlins County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Achilles

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Marion) 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.