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Nearest Communities to Hitchland,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Hitchland is located in Hansford County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hansford County: Texas (OK), Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hitchland. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Hansford 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 Hitchland (which is Hansford 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 Hitchland

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

  • Hansford County   (where Hitchland resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hansford.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hansford:   Spearman
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchland.
      • Bernstein
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Bernstein is located in Hansford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernstein
      • Phillips Camp
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Phillips Camp is located in Hansford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips Camp
      • Kimball
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Kimball is located in Hansford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
      • Gruver
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Hansford
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Hansford is located in Hansford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansford
      • Spearman
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • McKibben
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • McKibben is located in Hansford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKibben
  • Ochiltree County
  • Sherman County
  • Beaver County
  • Texas County
    • County Website:   https://texas.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Texas:   Guymon (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchland.
      • Hardesty
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Range
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Range is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
      • Guymon
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Guymon is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guymon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,010 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Guymon <3>
      • Optima
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Optima is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Optima
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 371 people
      • Goodwell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Adams
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Panoma
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Panoma is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panoma
      • Hooker
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Hooker is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hooker <3>
      • Midway
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Texas County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Texhoma
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Mouser
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Mouser is located in Texas County (OK)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouser
        • Straight
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Straight is located in Texas County (OK)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight
        • Unity
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Unity is located in Texas County (OK)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
        • Hough
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Hough is located in Texas County (OK)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hough
        • Baker
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Baker is located in Texas County (OK)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker

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- Hitchland) 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.