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Nearest Communities to Trail,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Trail.<1>

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


Trail is located in Dewey County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dewey County: Blaine, Custer, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills & Woodward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Trail. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Dewey 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 Trail (which is Dewey 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 Trail

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

  • Dewey County   (where Trail resides)
    • County Seat for Dewey:   Taloga
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail.
      • Camargo
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Leedey
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Webb
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Webb is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb
      • Rhea
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Rhea is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhea
      • Vici
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Aledo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Aledo is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aledo
      • Lenora
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Lenora is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenora
      • Burmah
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Burmah is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burmah
      • Cestos
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cestos is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cestos
      • Putnam
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Taloga
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Seiling
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Parallel
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Parallel is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parallel
      • Hucmac
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Hucmac is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hucmac
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://custer.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Arapaho
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail.
      • Moorewood
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Moorewood is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorewood
      • Osceola ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Osceola is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
      • McClure
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • McClure is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClure
      • Hammon Junction
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Hammon Junction is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammon Junction
      • Anthon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Anthon is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anthon
      • Butler
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Sunset
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Sunset is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
      • Independence
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Independence is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
      • Carpenter
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Carpenter is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
  • Ellis County
  • Major County
  • Roger Mills County
    • County Seat for Roger Mills:   Cheyenne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail.
      • Hammon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Hammon is located in Roger Mills County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 555 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammon <3>
      • Roll
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Roll is located in Roger Mills County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roll
      • Strong City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Strong City is located in Roger Mills County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strong City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
      • Herring
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Herring is located in Roger Mills County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herring
      • Crawford
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Woodward County
    • County Website:   https://woodward.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Woodward:   Woodward
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail.
      • Mutual
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Richmond
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Richmond is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
      • Sharon
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Keenan
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Keenan is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keenan
      • Cedardale
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cedardale is located in Woodward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedardale

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Trail) 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.