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Nearest Communities to Comstock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village 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 starting from Comstock.<1>

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

Comstock is located in Custer County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Buffalo, Dawson, Garfield, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Sherman & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Comstock. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Comstock (which is Custer 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 Comstock

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

  • Custer County   (where Comstock resides)
    • County Website:   https://custercountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comstock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comstock.
      • Wescott
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Wescott is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
      • Sargent
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Weissert
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Elton ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Elton is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
      • West Union ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • West Union is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
      • Westerville
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Round Valley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Round Valley is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
      • Cummings Park ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Cummings Park is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Park
      • Walworth
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Walworth is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walworth
      • Ansley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Berwyn
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Lillian
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Lillian is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillian
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Gates
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Gates is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
        • Mason City
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Broken Bow
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • 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>
        • New Helena
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • New Helena is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Helena
        • Milburn
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Milburn is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburn
        • Merna
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Buckeye
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Buckeye is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
        • Dale ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Dale is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
  • Garfield County
  • Greeley County
  • Loup County
    • County Website:   https://loupcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Loup:   Taylor
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comstock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comstock.
      • Kent ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Kent is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
      • Taylor
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Aggies Acres
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Aggies Acres is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aggies Acres
      • Mikes Meadows
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Mikes Meadows is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mikes Meadows
      • Almeria
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Almeria is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almeria
  • Sherman County
  • Valley County
    • County Website:   https://valleycountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Ord
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comstock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comstock.
      • Geranium ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Geranium is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
      • Arcadia
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Vinton ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Vinton is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
      • Elyria
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Ord
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Ord is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <3>
      • Saunders
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Saunders is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
      • Spelts
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Spelts is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spelts
      • Olean
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Olean is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olean
      • Sumter
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Sumter is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumter
      • North Loup
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Comstock) 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.
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