Nearest Communities to Merritt,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Merritt, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Merritt:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Merritt is located in Beckham County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beckham County: Custer, Greer, Harmon, Kiowa, Roger Mills, Washita, Collingsworth (TX) & Wheeler (TX).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 57 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Merritt. Of these communities, 41 are located in counties other than Beckham 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 Merritt (which is Beckham 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 Merritt
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Beckham County (where Merritt resides)
- County Website: https://beckham.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Beckham: Sayre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Hocker
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Hocker is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hocker
- Doxey
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Doxey is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doxey
- Elk City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sayre
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Carter
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Taylor
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Taylor is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- New Liberty
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- New Liberty is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Liberty
- Retrop
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Retrop is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retrop
- Delhi
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Delhi is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delhi
- Hext
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hext is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hext
- Prentiss
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Prentiss is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prentiss
- Moravia
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Moravia is located in Beckham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moravia
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- Mayfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Erick
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sweetwater
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Texola
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Custer County
- County Website: https://custer.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Custer: Arapaho
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Carpenter
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Carpenter is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
- Hammon Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Hammon Junction is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammon Junction
- McClure
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- McClure is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClure
- Stafford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Stafford is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford
- Butler
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Moorewood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Moorewood is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorewood
- Parkersburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Parkersburg is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
- Ralph
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Ralph is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralph
- Greer County
- County Website: https://greer.okcounties.org/
- County Seat for Greer: Mangum
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Willow
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Plainview
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Plainview is located in Greer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
- Brinkman
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Brinkman is located in Greer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
- Lake Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Lake Creek is located in Greer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Creek
- Bloomington
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Bloomington is located in Greer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
- Jester
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jester is located in Greer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jester
- Granite
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Kiowa County
- County Website: https://kiowacountyok.us/
- County Seat for Kiowa: Hobart
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Cambridge
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Cambridge is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
- Lone Wolf
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Roger Mills County
- County Seat for Roger Mills: Cheyenne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Berlin
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Berlin is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
- Grimes
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Grimes is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes
- Rosehill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rosehill is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosehill
- Herring
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Herring is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herring
- Hammon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Cheyenne
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Dempsey
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Dempsey is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dempsey
- Strong City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Strong City is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strong City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
- Meridian
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Meridian is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
- Mackie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mackie is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackie
- Rankin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Rankin is located in Roger Mills County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
- Reydon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Washita County
- County Seat for Washita: New Cordell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merritt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
- Canute
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Port
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Port is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port
- Burns Flat
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Old Retrop
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Old Retrop is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Retrop
- Foss
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Dill City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Sentinel
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Braithwaite
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Braithwaite is located in Washita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braithwaite
- Bessie
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- New Cordell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- 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>
- Rocky
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wheeler 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 from Point A (ie- Merritt) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |