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Nearest Communities to Charleston,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Charleston.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Charleston is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Harper County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harper County: Clark (KS), Comanche (KS), Beaver, Ellis, Woods & Woodward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Charleston. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Harper County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Charleston (which is Harper 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 Charleston

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

  • Harper County   (where Charleston resides)
    • County Seat for Harper:   Buffalo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Selman
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selman
        • Selman is located in Harper County
      • Buffalo
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Willard
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willard have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
        • Willard is located in Harper County
      • Dunlap
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunlap have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
        • Dunlap is located in Harper County
      • May
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
        • May is located in Harper County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <4>
      • Laverne
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Rosston
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rosston have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosston
        • Rosston is located in Harper County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rosston <4>
  • Woods County
    • County Seat for Woods:   Alva
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Plainview
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainview have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Plainview is located in Woods County
      • Edith
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edith have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
        • Edith is located in Woods County
      • Haskew ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haskew came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskew
        • Haskew is located in Woods County
      • Freedom
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freedom have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
        • Freedom is located in Woods County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Freedom <4>
      • Fairvalley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairvalley have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairvalley
        • Fairvalley is located in Woods County
      • Tegarden
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tegarden have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tegarden
        • Tegarden is located in Woods County
      • Cora
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cora have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora
        • Cora is located in Woods County
  • Woodward County
    • County Seat for Woodward:   Woodward
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Fort Supply
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Gerlach
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gerlach have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach
        • Gerlach is located in Woodward County
      • Woodward
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Alston
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alston have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alston
        • Alston is located in Woodward County
      • Tangier
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tangier have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tangier
        • Tangier is located in Woodward County
  • Barber County
  • Clark County
    • County Seat for Clark:   Ashland (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Charleston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Charleston.
      • Sitka
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sitka have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sitka
        • Sitka is located in Clark County (KS)
      • Ashland
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Comanche County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Charleston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Charleston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8559, Longitude: -99.4391    
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Charleston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.




 

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