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Nearest Communities to Mascot,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Mascot.<1>

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

Mascot is located in Harlan County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harlan County: Norton (KS), Phillips (KS), Franklin, Furnas, Kearney & Phelps.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mascot. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Harlan 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 Mascot (which is Harlan 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 Mascot

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

  • Harlan County   (where Mascot resides)
    • County Seat for Harlan:   Alma
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mascot   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mascot.
      • Oxford Junction
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford Junction
        • Oxford Junction is located in Harlan County
      • Flynn Junction
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Stamford
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Orleans
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orleans have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
        • Orleans is located in Harlan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 363 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Orleans <4>
      • Huntley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntley
        • Huntley is located in Harlan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 42 people
      • Ragan
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ragan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragan
        • Ragan is located in Harlan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ragan <4>
      • Alma
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
        • Alma is located in Harlan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,116 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alma <4>
      • Republican City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Franklin County
  • Furnas County
    • County Seat for Furnas:   Beaver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mascot   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mascot.
      • Oxford
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
        • Oxford is located in Furnas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 711 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oxford <4>
      • Hollinger
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hollinger. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollinger
        • Hollinger is located in Furnas County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Hollinger
        • From Mascot to Hollinger
      • Edison
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Precept
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Precept have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Precept
        • Precept is located in Furnas County
      • Beaver City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Arapahoe
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Deerfield Corner
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deerfield Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield Corner
        • Deerfield Corner is located in Furnas County
      • Hendley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hendley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendley
        • Hendley is located in Furnas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hendley <4>
      • Holbrook
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holbrook
        • Holbrook is located in Furnas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holbrook <4>
  • Gosper County
    • County Seat for Gosper:   Elwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mascot   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mascot.
      • Smithfield
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Devils Gap
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devils Gap have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Gap
        • Devils Gap is located in Gosper County
      • Elwood
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
        • Elwood is located in Gosper County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 679 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elwood <4>
  • Kearney County
  • Phelps County
  • Norton County
    • County Website:   www.nortoncountyks.org/
    • County Seat for Norton:   Norton (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mascot   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mascot.
      • Almena
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almena have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almena
        • Almena is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 376 people
      • Calvert
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calvert have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert
        • Calvert is located in Norton County (KS)
  • Phillips County

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 from Point A (ie- Mascot) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mascot. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2633, Longitude: -99.5463    
<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>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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