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Nearest Communities to Sentinel,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Sentinel is located in Washita County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washita County: Beckham, Caddo, Custer & Kiowa.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sentinel. Of these communities, 39 are located in counties other than Washita 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 Sentinel (which is Washita 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 Sentinel

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

  • Washita County   (where Sentinel resides)
    • County Seat for Washita:   New Cordell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sentinel   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sentinel.
      • Rocky
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Dill City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Port
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Port is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port
      • Old Retrop
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Old Retrop is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Retrop
      • Rainy ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Rainy is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainy
      • Burns Flat
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • New Cordell
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Braithwaite
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Braithwaite is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braithwaite
      • Lake Valley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Lake Valley is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
      • Bessie
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Cloud Chief
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Cloud Chief is located in Washita County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloud Chief
      • Canute
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Foss
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Foss is located in Washita County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foss
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Foss <3>
        • Cowden
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Cowden is located in Washita County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden
        • Corn
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Corn is located in Washita County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corn
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 467 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Corn <3>
        • Cowden Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Cowden Junction is located in Washita County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden Junction
  • Beckham County
    • County Website:   https://beckham.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Beckham:   Sayre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sentinel   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sentinel.
      • Retrop
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Retrop is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retrop
      • Taylor
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Taylor is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
      • Hocker
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Hocker is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hocker
      • Carter
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Moravia
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Moravia is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moravia
      • Elk City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Merritt
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Merritt is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merritt
      • Doxey
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Doxey is located in Beckham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doxey
      • Delhi
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Sayre
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Custer County
  • Greer County
  • Jackson County
  • Kiowa County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sentinel) 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.