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Nearest Communities to Wilson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Wilson.<1>

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

Wilson is located in Ellsworth County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ellsworth County: Barton, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell & Saline.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 61 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wilson. Of these communities, 49 are located in counties other than Ellsworth 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 Wilson (which is Ellsworth 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 Wilson

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

  • Ellsworth County   (where Wilson resides)
  • Barton County
  • Lincoln County
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Lincoln Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilson.
      • Sylvan Grove
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Sylvan Grove is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Grove
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 269 people
        • Sylvan Grove has also been known as:
        • Sylvan Grove Station
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sylvan Grove <3>
      • Wolf Creek
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Wolf Creek is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
      • Vesper
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Vesper is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesper
      • Denmark
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Goldenrod
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Goldenrod is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldenrod
      • Grant
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Grant is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
      • Ash Grove
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Ash Grove is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Grove
      • Lincoln Center
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Lincoln Center is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Center
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,189 people
        • Former name for Lincoln Center:
        • Lincoln Centre
        • Lincoln Center has also been known as:
        • Lincoln
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lincoln Center <3>
      • Barton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Barton is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Quartzite
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Westfall
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Westfall is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
        • Edalgo
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Edalgo is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edalgo
        • Shady Bend
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Shady Bend is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Bend
        • Juniata
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Juniata is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata
        • Beverly
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Beverly is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
  • Mitchell County
  • Osborne County
    • County Website:   https://www.osbornecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Osborne:   Osborne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilson.
      • Cheyenne
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Cheyenne is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
        • Cheyenne has also been known as:
        • Cheyenne City
      • Cheyenne Gap
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Cheyenne Gap is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Gap
      • Vincent
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Vincent is located in Osborne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
  • Rice County
  • Russell 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- Wilson) 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.