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Nearest Communities to Arabia,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Arabia is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Cherry County.

The following 11 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cherry County: Blaine, Brown, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha, Sheridan, Thomas, Bennett (SD), Oglala Lakota (SD), Todd (SD) & Tripp (SD).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Arabia. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Cherry County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Arabia (which is Cherry 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 Arabia

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

  • Cherry County   (where Arabia resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.cherry.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Cherry:   Valentine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Arabia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Arabia.
      • Thatcher
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thatcher have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thatcher
        • Thatcher is located in Cherry County
      • Wood Lake
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Valentine
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Sparks
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Simeon
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Simeon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simeon
        • Simeon is located in Cherry County
      • Crookston
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Conterra
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conterra have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conterra
        • Conterra is located in Cherry County
      • Kennedy
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy
        • Kennedy is located in Cherry County
      • Piercy Place
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Piercy Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piercy Place
        • Piercy Place is located in Cherry County
      • Hartgraves Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartgraves Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartgraves Place
        • Hartgraves Place is located in Cherry County
  • Brown County
    • County Seat for Brown:   Ainsworth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Arabia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Arabia.
      • Johnstown
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johnstown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
        • Johnstown is located in Brown County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 60 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Johnstown <5>
      • Sandridge
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sandridge have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandridge
        • Sandridge is located in Brown County
      • Ainsworth
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Keya Paha County
  • Todd County
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Arabia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Arabia.
      • Littleburg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Littleburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleburg
        • Littleburg is located in Todd County (SD)
      • Olsonville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsonville
        • Olsonville is located in Todd County (SD)
        • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people
  • Tripp 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- Arabia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Arabia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7309, Longitude: -100.3727       In this case, the coordinates for Arabia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Arabia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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