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Nearest Communities to Elm Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Elm Creek.<1>

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

Elm Creek is located in Buffalo County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Buffalo County: Adams, Custer, Dawson, Hall, Howard, Kearney, Phelps & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elm Creek. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Buffalo 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 Elm Creek (which is Buffalo 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 Elm Creek

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

  • Buffalo County   (where Elm Creek resides)
    • County Website:   https://buffalocounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Kearney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elm Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elm Creek.
      • Odessa
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Amherst
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Alfalfa Center
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Alfalfa Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa Center
      • Riverdale
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • R-Villa Courts
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • R-Villa Courts is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for R-Villa Courts
      • Miller
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Glenwood Park
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Glenwood Park is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Park
      • Kearney
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Prairie View Estates
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Prairie View Estates is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie View Estates
      • Prairie Center
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Prairie Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Center
      • Sartoria
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Sartoria is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartoria
      • Buda
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Buda is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buda
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Pleasanton
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Gibbon
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Poole
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Poole is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole
        • Sweetwater
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Sweetwater is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
  • Custer County
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://www.dawsoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elm Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elm Creek.
      • Trued
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Trued is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trued
      • Overton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Josselyn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Josselyn is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josselyn
      • Sumner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Lexington
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Eddyville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Darr
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
      • Buffalo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Buffalo is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Gosper County
  • Harlan County
  • Kearney County
    • County Website:   https://kearneycounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Kearney:   Minden
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elm Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elm Creek.
      • Kearney City ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Kearney City is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearney City
        • Kearney City has also been known as:
        • Dobytown
      • Axtell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Newark
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Newark is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark
      • Keene
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Keene is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keene
      • Wilcox
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Valley City ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Valley City is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley City
      • Minden
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Lowell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Lowell is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
      • Koller
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Koller is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koller
  • Phelps County
    • County Website:   https://phelpscounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Phelps:   Holdrege
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elm Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elm Creek.
      • Westmark
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Westmark is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmark
      • Funk
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Loomis
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Holdrege
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Bertrand
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Clyde
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Clyde is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Sacramento
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Sacramento is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacramento
      • Atlanta
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Sherman County

Footnotes ...

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