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Nearest Communities to Buffalo,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Buffalo.<1>

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

Buffalo is located in Dawson County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Buffalo, Custer, Frontier, Gosper, Lincoln & Phelps.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buffalo. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Buffalo (which is Dawson 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 Buffalo

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

  • Dawson County   (where Buffalo resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.dawsoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo.
      • Eddyville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Cozad
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Darr
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
      • Willow Island
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Willow Island is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island
      • Lexington
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Sumner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Gothenburg
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Josselyn
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Josselyn is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josselyn
      • Overton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Trued
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Trued is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trued
      • Farnam
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Buffalo County
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://custercountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo.
      • Oconto
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Lodi
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Lodi is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
      • Burr Oak
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Burr Oak is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Oak
      • Buckeye
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Buckeye is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
      • Cumro ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Cumro is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumro
      • Etna
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Etna is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Callaway
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Finchville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Finchville is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finchville
      • Broken Bow
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Broken Bow is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Bow
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,437 people
        • Broken Bow has also been known as:
        • Brokenbow
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Broken Bow <3>
      • Berwyn
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Frontier County
  • Gosper County
  • Lincoln 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Buffalo) 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.