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Nearest Communities to Atwood,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Atwood.<1>

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

Atwood is located in Rawlins County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rawlins County: Cheyenne, Decatur, Sherman, Thomas, Dundy (NE), Hitchcock (NE) & Red Willow (NE).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Atwood. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Rawlins 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 Atwood (which is Rawlins 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 Atwood

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

  • Rawlins County   (where Atwood resides)
    • County Website:   https://rawlinscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Rawlins:   Atwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Atwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Atwood.
      • North Atwood
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • North Atwood is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Atwood
      • Blakeman
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Blakeman is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeman
      • Ludell
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Ludell is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludell
      • Beardsley
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Beardsley is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beardsley
      • Chardon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Chardon is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chardon
      • Achilles
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Achilles is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Achilles
      • Midway
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Midway is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Herndon
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Herndon is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
      • McDonald
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • McDonald is located in Rawlins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
  • Cheyenne County
  • Decatur County
  • Thomas County
    • County Website:   https://thomascountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Thomas:   Colby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Atwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Atwood.
      • Gem
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Gem is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
      • Breton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Breton is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breton
      • Rexford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Colby
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Levant
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Levant is located in Thomas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Levant
  • Dundy County
  • Hitchcock County

Footnotes ...

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