Nearest Communities to Bessie,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bessie, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bessie:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 from Bessie.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bessie is located in Washita County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washita County: Beckham, Caddo, Custer & Kiowa.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 57 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bessie. Of these communities, 40 are located in counties other than Washita 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 Bessie (which is Washita 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 Bessie
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Washita County (where Bessie resides)
- County Seat for Washita: New Cordell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessie.
- Braithwaite
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Braithwaite is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braithwaite
- New Cordell
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- New Cordell is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Cordell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,708 people
- New Cordell has also been known as:
- Cordell
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Cordell <3>
- Dill City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Burns Flat
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Corn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Foss
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cloud Chief
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cloud Chief is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloud Chief
- Cowden Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Cowden Junction is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden Junction
- Rainy ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Rainy is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainy
- Rocky
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Lake Valley
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Valley is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
- Canute
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Colony
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Cowden
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Cowden is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden
- Sentinel
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Port
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Port is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port
- Old Retrop
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Old Retrop is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Retrop
- Beckham County
- County Website: https://beckham.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Beckham: Sayre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessie.
- Elk City
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Taylor
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Taylor is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Retrop
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Retrop is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retrop
- Hocker
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Hocker is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hocker
- Merritt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Merritt is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merritt
- Caddo County
- County Seat for Caddo: Anadarko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessie.
- Alfalfa
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Alfalfa is located in Caddo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa
- Eakly
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Hydro
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Swan Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Swan Lake is located in Caddo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Lake
- Carnegie
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sickles
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Sickles is located in Caddo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sickles
- Custer County
- County Website: https://custer.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Custer: Arapaho
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessie.
- Parkersburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Parkersburg is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
- Ralph
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Ralph is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralph
- Clinton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- East Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- East Junction is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Junction
- Stafford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Stafford is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford
- Arapaho
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Indianapolis
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Indianapolis is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indianapolis
- Weatherford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Custer City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Butler
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Foley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Foley is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foley
- Dead Women Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Dead Women Crossing is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dead Women Crossing
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Independence
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Independence is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
- Carpenter
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Carpenter is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
- Anthon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Anthon is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anthon
- Sunset
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Sunset is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
- McClure
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- McClure is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClure
- Osceola ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Osceola is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- Thomas
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hammon Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hammon Junction is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammon Junction
- Dewey County
- County Seat for Dewey: Taloga
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- Burmah
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Burmah is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burmah
- Kiowa County
- County Website: https://kiowacountyok.us/
- County Seat for Kiowa: Hobart
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessie.
- Gotebo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Komalty
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Komalty is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Komalty
- Mountain View
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Cambridge
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cambridge is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
- Hobart
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Babbs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Babbs is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Babbs
- Lone Wolf
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Roger Mills County
- County Seat for Roger Mills: Cheyenne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessie ...
- Hammon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bessie) 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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