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Nearest Communities to Oleta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 from Oleta.<1>

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

Oleta is located in Pushmataha County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pushmataha County: Atoka, Choctaw, Latimer, Le Flore, McCurtain & Pittsburg.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 109 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oleta. Of these communities, 78 are located in counties other than Pushmataha 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 Oleta (which is Pushmataha 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 Oleta

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

  • Pushmataha County   (where Oleta resides)
  • Atoka County
  • Choctaw County
    • County Seat for Choctaw:   Hugo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oleta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oleta.
      • Spencerville
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • High Hill
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • High Hill is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Hill
      • Apple
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Virgil
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Messer
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Messer is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Messer
      • Fort Towson
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Sawyer
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • West Fort Towson
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • West Fort Towson is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fort Towson
      • Speer
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Speer is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speer
      • Hamden
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Hamden is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamden
      • Fallon
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Fallon is located in Choctaw County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallon
      • Swink
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Hugo
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Huskey
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • Huskey is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huskey
        • Kent
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Kent is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
        • Forney
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Forney is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forney
        • Goodland
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Goodland is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
        • Frogville
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Grant
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Nelson
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Nelson is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
        • Shoals
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Shoals is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoals
        • Ord
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Ord is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
        • Gay
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Gay is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gay
        • Soper
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Jasper
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Jasper is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper
        • Bluff
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Bluff is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff
        • Duland
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Duland is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duland
        • Sand Bluff
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Sand Bluff is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Bluff
        • Unger
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Unger is located in Choctaw County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unger
  • McCurtain County
  • Lamar County
  • Red River County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.red-river.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Red River:   Clarksville (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oleta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oleta.
      • Kiomatia
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Kiomatia is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiomatia
      • Davenport
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Davenport is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davenport
      • Kanawha
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Manchester
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Manchester is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
      • Addielou
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Woodland
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Woodland is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland
      • Blakeney
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Blakeney is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeney
      • Silver City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Silver City is located in Red River County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
      • Albion
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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 from Point A (ie- Oleta) 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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