Nearest Communities to Oberlin,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Oberlin, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Oberlin:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Oberlin.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Oberlin is located in Decatur County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Decatur County: Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas, Furnas (NE) & Red Willow (NE).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oberlin. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Decatur 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 Oberlin (which is Decatur 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 Oberlin
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Decatur County (where Oberlin resides)
- County Website: https://www.dccoks.org/
- County Seat for Decatur: Oberlin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Kanona
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Kanona is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanona
- Cedar Bluffs
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Cedar Bluffs is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluffs
- Traer
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Traer is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Traer
- Dresden
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jennings
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jennings is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings
- Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
- Leoville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Leoville is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leoville
- Norcatur
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Norcatur is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norcatur
- Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
- Lyle
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lyle is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyle
- Allison ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Allison is located in Decatur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
- Norton County
- County Website: https://www.nortoncountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Norton: Norton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Clayton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Clayton is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people
- Reager
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Reager is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reager
- Rockwell City ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Rockwell City is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwell City
- Dellvale
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Dellvale is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellvale
- Oronoque
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Oronoque is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oronoque
- Devizes
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Devizes is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devizes
- New Almelo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- New Almelo is located in Norton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Almelo
- Rawlins County
- County Website: https://rawlinscounty.org/
- County Seat for Rawlins: Atwood
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Midway
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Midway is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Herndon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Herndon is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
- Achilles
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Achilles is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Achilles
- Ludell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Ludell is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludell
- Atwood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- North Atwood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- North Atwood is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Atwood
- Chardon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Chardon is located in Rawlins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chardon
- Sheridan County
- County Website: https://www.sheridancountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Sheridan: Hoxie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Selden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Selden is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selden
- Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
- Lucerne
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lucerne is located in Sheridan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
- Thomas County
- County Website: https://thomascountyks.gov/
- County Seat for Thomas: Colby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Rexford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Breton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Breton is located in Thomas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breton
- Furnas County
- Hitchcock County
- County Website: https://hitchcockcounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Hitchcock: Trenton (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- Cornell ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cornell is located in Hitchcock County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Red Willow County
- County Website: https://redwillowcountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Red Willow: McCook (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oberlin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oberlin.
- Marion
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Marion is located in Red Willow County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Danbury
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lebanon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Shippee
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Shippee is located in Red Willow County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shippee
- McCook
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- McCook is located in Red Willow County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCook
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,499 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCook <3>
- Red Willow
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Red Willow is located in Red Willow County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Willow
- Perry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Perry is located in Red Willow County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Indianola
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
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 from Point A (ie- Oberlin) 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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