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Nearest Communities to Akron,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

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

Akron is located in Boone County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boone County: Antelope, Greeley, Madison, Nance, Platte & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Akron. Of these communities, 35 are located in counties other than Boone 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 Akron (which is Boone 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 Akron

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

  • Boone County   (where Akron resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.boone.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Boone:   Albion
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Akron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Akron.
      • Loretto
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Primrose
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Primrose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Primrose
        • Primrose is located in Boone County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Primrose <4>
      • Petersburg
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Petersburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
        • Petersburg is located in Boone County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 306 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Petersburg <4>
      • Albion
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Albion have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albion
        • Albion is located in Boone County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,558 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Albion <4>
      • Cedar Rapids
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Rapids have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Rapids
        • Cedar Rapids is located in Boone County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cedar Rapids <4>
      • Raeville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Raeville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raeville
        • Raeville is located in Boone County
      • Boone
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Vorhees
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Vorhees. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vorhees
        • Vorhees is located in Boone County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Vorhees
        • From Akron to Vorhees
      • Closter
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Closter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Closter
        • Closter is located in Boone County
      • Saint Edward
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Antelope County
  • Greeley County
  • Holt County
  • Madison County
  • Nance County
    • County Website:   www.co.nance.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Nance:   Fullerton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Akron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Akron.
      • Timber Creek
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Timber Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Creek
        • Timber Creek is located in Nance County
      • Belgrade
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • North Star
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Star have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Star
        • North Star is located in Nance County
      • Fullerton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Merchiston
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Merchiston have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merchiston
        • Merchiston is located in Nance County
  • Platte County
  • Valley County
  • Wheeler County
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Bartlett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Akron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Akron.
      • Day Ranch
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Day Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day Ranch
        • Day Ranch is located in Wheeler County
      • Mignery Ranch
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mignery Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mignery Ranch
        • Mignery Ranch is located in Wheeler County
      • Bartlett
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Koinzan Ranch
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Koinzan Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koinzan Ranch
        • Koinzan Ranch is located in Wheeler County
      • Headquarters ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Headquarters have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Headquarters
        • Headquarters is located in Wheeler County
      • Stokes Ranch
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stokes Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Ranch
        • Stokes Ranch is located in Wheeler County
      • Ericson
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Cumminsville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cumminsville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumminsville
        • Cumminsville is located in Wheeler County
      • Wheeler ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheeler have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
        • Wheeler is located in Wheeler County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Akron) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Akron. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7414, Longitude: -98.2439       In this case, the coordinates for Akron have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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