Nearest Communities to Ashby,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ashby, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ashby:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Ashby.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ashby is located in Grant County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grant County: Arthur, Cherry, Garden, Hooker, McPherson & Sheridan.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ashby. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Grant 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 Ashby (which is Grant 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 Ashby
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Grant County (where Ashby resides)
- County Seat for Grant: Hyannis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ashby.
- Hyannis
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hyannis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyannis
- Hyannis is located in Grant County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hyannis <4>
- Duluth
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Duluth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duluth
- Duluth is located in Grant County
- Whitman
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Arthur County
- County Seat for Arthur: Arthur
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- Velma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Velma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Velma
- Velma is located in Arthur County
- Cherry County
- County Website: www.co.cherry.ne.us/
- County Seat for Cherry: Valentine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- Hire
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hire have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hire
- Hire is located in Cherry County
- Garden County
- County Website: www.co.garden.ne.us/
- County Seat for Garden: Oshkosh
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- Rackett
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rackett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rackett
- Rackett is located in Garden County
- Hooker County
- County Website: www.co.hooker.ne.us/
- County Seat for Hooker: Mullen
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- Weir
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weir have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weir
- Weir is located in Hooker County
- Sheridan County
- County Seat for Sheridan: Rushville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ashby ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ashby.
- Bingham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Ellsworth
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Jennings ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jennings have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings
- Jennings is located in Sheridan County
- Lakeside
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
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- Ashby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ashby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0248, Longitude: -101.9292 |
<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. |