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Nearest Communities to McCook,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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.

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

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

McCook is located in Red Willow County and is the County Seat.

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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McCook. Of these communities, 21 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 McCook (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 McCook

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

  • Red Willow County   (where McCook resides)
  • Frontier County
  • Furnas County
  • Hayes County
  • Hitchcock County
  • Decatur County
    • County Seat for Decatur:   Oberlin (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCook   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCook.
      • Cedar Bluffs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Bluffs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluffs
        • Cedar Bluffs is located in Decatur County (KS)
      • Traer
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Traer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Traer
        • Traer is located in Decatur County (KS)
      • Oberlin
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oberlin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oberlin
        • Oberlin is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,669 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oberlin <4>
      • Lyle
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lyle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyle
        • Lyle is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Lyle
        • From McCook to Lyle
      • Kanona
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kanona. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanona
        • Kanona is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Kanona
        • From McCook to Kanona
  • Rawlins County
    • County Seat for Rawlins:   Atwood (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCook   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCook.
      • Herndon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Herndon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
        • Herndon is located in Rawlins County (KS)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
      • Midway
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
        • Midway is located in Rawlins County (KS)
      • Ludell
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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- McCook) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McCook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2069, Longitude: -100.6254    
<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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