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Nearest Communities to Optima,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 starting from Optima.<1>

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

Optima is located in Texas County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Texas County: Morton (KS), Seward (KS), Stevens (KS), Beaver, Cimarron, Hansford (TX), Ochiltree (TX) & Sherman (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Optima. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Texas 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 Optima (which is Texas 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 Optima

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

  • Texas County   (where Optima resides)
    • County Website:   https://texas.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Texas:   Guymon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Optima   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Optima.
      • Midway
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Panoma
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Panoma is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panoma
      • Mouser
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Mouser is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouser
      • Guymon
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Straight
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Straight is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight
      • Hooker
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hardesty
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Hough
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Hough is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hough
      • Adams
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Baker
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Baker is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
      • Goodwell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Hovey
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Hovey is located in Texas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovey
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Unity
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Unity is located in Texas County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
        • Tyrone
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Fluor
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Fluor is located in Texas County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fluor
        • Range
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Range is located in Texas County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
        • Muncy
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Muncy is located in Texas County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muncy
        • Texhoma
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Eva
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Eva is located in Texas County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eva
  • Beaver County
  • Morton County
  • Seward County
  • Stevens County
  • Hansford County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hansford.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hansford:   Spearman (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Optima   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Optima.
      • Hitchland
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Hitchland is located in Hansford County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitchland
      • Phillips Camp
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Phillips Camp is located in Hansford County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips Camp
      • Bernstein
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Bernstein is located in Hansford County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernstein
      • Kimball
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Kimball is located in Hansford County (TX)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
  • Sherman County

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- Optima) 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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