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Nearest Communities to Chadron,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Chadron.<1>

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

Chadron is located in Dawes County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawes County: Box Butte, Sheridan, Sioux, Fall River (SD) & Oglala Lakota (SD).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Chadron. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Dawes 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 Chadron (which is Dawes 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 Chadron

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

  • Dawes County   (where Chadron resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.dawes.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Dawes:   Chadron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chadron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chadron.
      • Prairie Pines Retirement Community
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Pines Retirement Community have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Pines Retirement Community
        • Prairie Pines Retirement Community is located in Dawes County
      • Dakota Junction
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dakota Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
        • Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County
      • Bordeaux ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bordeaux have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bordeaux
        • Bordeaux is located in Dawes County
      • Whitney
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
        • Whitney is located in Dawes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitney <4>
      • Crawford
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Horn
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
        • Horn is located in Dawes County
      • Fort Robinson ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Robinson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robinson
        • Fort Robinson is located in Dawes County
      • Belmont
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
        • Belmont is located in Dawes County
      • Marsland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Sheridan County
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Rushville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chadron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chadron.
      • Adaton ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Adaton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaton
        • Adaton is located in Sheridan County
      • Hay Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hay Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Springs
        • Hay Springs is located in Sheridan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 527 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hay Springs <4>
      • Whiteclay
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Rushville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rushville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville
        • Rushville is located in Sheridan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 871 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rushville <4>
      • Peters ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peters have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters
        • Peters is located in Sheridan County
  • Sioux County
    • County Website:   www.co.sioux.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Harrison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chadron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chadron.
      • Orella
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orella have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orella
        • Orella is located in Sioux County
      • Joder
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joder have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joder
        • Joder is located in Sioux County
  • Fall River County
  • Oglala Lakota 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- Chadron) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chadron. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8260, Longitude: -103.0025       In this case, the coordinates for Chadron 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.




 

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