Nearest Communities to Herring,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Herring, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Herring:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Herring.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Herring is located in Roger Mills County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roger Mills County: Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Hemphill (TX) & Wheeler (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Herring. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Roger Mills 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 Herring (which is Roger Mills 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 Herring
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Roger Mills County (where Herring resides)
- County Seat for Roger Mills: Cheyenne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Herring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
- Strong City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Strong City is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strong City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
- Hammon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Cheyenne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Berlin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Berlin is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
- Rosehill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Rosehill is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosehill
- Roll
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Roll is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roll
- Grimes
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grimes is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes
- Mackie
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Mackie is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackie
- Dempsey
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Dempsey is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dempsey
- Crawford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Rankin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Rankin is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
- Reydon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Meridian
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Meridian is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
- Durham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Beckham County
- County Website: https://beckham.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Beckham: Sayre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Herring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
- Elk City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Merritt
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Merritt is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merritt
- Doxey
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Doxey is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doxey
- New Liberty
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- New Liberty is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Liberty
- Hocker
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Hocker is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hocker
- Sayre
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Prentiss
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Prentiss is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prentiss
- Sweetwater
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Taylor
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Taylor is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Carter
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Mayfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hext
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hext is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hext
- Custer County
- County Website: https://custer.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Custer: Arapaho
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Herring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
- Hammon Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Hammon Junction is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammon Junction
- Carpenter
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Carpenter is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
- McClure
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- McClure is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClure
- Moorewood
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Moorewood is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorewood
- Butler
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Osceola ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Osceola is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- Stafford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Stafford is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford
- Parkersburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Parkersburg is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
- Anthon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Anthon is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anthon
- Ralph
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Ralph is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralph
- Dewey County
- County Seat for Dewey: Taloga
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Herring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
- Leedey
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Rhea
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Rhea is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhea
- Aledo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Aledo is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aledo
- Trail
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Trail is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail
- Burmah
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Burmah is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burmah
- Camargo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Webb
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Webb is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb
- Washita County
- County Seat for Washita: New Cordell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Herring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
- Canute
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Foss
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Burns Flat
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Braithwaite
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Braithwaite is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braithwaite
- Port
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Port is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Herring) 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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