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Nearest Communities to Day Ranch,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 Day Ranch.<1>

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

Day Ranch is located in Wheeler County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wheeler County: Antelope, Boone, Garfield, Greeley, Holt & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Day Ranch. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Wheeler 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 Day Ranch (which is Wheeler 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 Day Ranch

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

  • Wheeler County   (where Day Ranch resides)
    • County Website:   https://wheelercounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Bartlett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Day Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Day Ranch.
      • Koinzan Ranch
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Koinzan Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koinzan Ranch
      • Mignery Ranch
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Mignery Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mignery Ranch
      • Stokes Ranch
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Stokes Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Ranch
      • Headquarters ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Headquarters is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Headquarters
      • Cumminsville
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Cumminsville is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumminsville
      • Bartlett
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Wheeler ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Wheeler is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
      • Ericson
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Antelope County
  • Boone County
    • County Website:   https://boonecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Boone:   Albion
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Day Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Day Ranch.
      • Akron
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Akron is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akron
      • Petersburg
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Raeville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Raeville is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raeville
      • Loretto
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Loretto is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loretto
      • Primrose
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Closter
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Closter is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Closter
      • Albion
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Cedar Rapids
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Garfield County
  • Greeley County
    • County Website:   https://greeleycounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Greeley:   Greeley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Day Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Day Ranch.
      • Spalding
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Belfast
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Belfast is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
      • Greeley Center
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
      • Greeley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • O'Connor
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • O'Connor is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
  • Holt County
    • County Website:   https://holtcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Holt:   O'Neill
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Day Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Day Ranch.
      • Deloit
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Deloit is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deloit
      • Knievels Corner
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Knievels Corner is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knievels Corner
      • Ewing
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Chambers
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Stafford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Stafford is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford
      • Emporia ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Emporia is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emporia
      • Inman
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Madison County

Footnotes ...

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