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Nearest Communities to Plainview,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Plainview.<1>

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

Plainview is located in Woods County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Woods County: Barber (KS), Comanche (KS), Alfalfa, Harper, Major & Woodward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plainview. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Woods 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 Plainview (which is Woods 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 Plainview

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

  • Woods County   (where Plainview resides)
    • County Seat for Woods:   Alva
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Edith
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Edith is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
      • Freedom
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Haskew ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Haskew is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskew
      • Fairvalley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Fairvalley is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairvalley
      • Tegarden
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Tegarden is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tegarden
      • Cora
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Cora is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora
      • Winchester
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Winchester is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
      • Avard
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Avard is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avard
      • Heman
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Heman is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heman
      • Waynoka
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Noel
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Noel is located in Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noel
  • Harper County
    • County Seat for Harper:   Buffalo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Charleston ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Charleston is located in Harper County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Selman
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Selman is located in Harper County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selman
      • Buffalo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Dunlap
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Dunlap is located in Harper County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
      • Willard
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Willard is located in Harper County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
  • Woodward County
    • County Website:   https://woodward.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Woodward:   Woodward
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Fort Supply
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Mooreland
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Belva
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Belva is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belva
      • Alston
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Alston is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alston
      • Curtis
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Curtis is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
      • Quinlan
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Quinlan is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinlan
      • Woodward
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Gerlach
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Gerlach is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach
  • Barber County
  • Comanche County

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- Plainview) 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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