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Nearest Communities to Elwood,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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

Elwood is located in Gosper County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gosper County: Dawson, Frontier, Furnas, Harlan & Phelps.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elwood. Of these communities, 30 are located in counties other than Gosper 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 Elwood (which is Gosper 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 Elwood

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

  • Gosper County   (where Elwood resides)
    • County Seat for Gosper:   Elwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Devils Gap
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devils Gap have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Gap
        • Devils Gap is located in Gosper County
      • Smithfield
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Buffalo County
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   www.dawsoncountyne.net/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Lexington
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Darr
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
      • Josselyn
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Josselyn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josselyn
        • Josselyn is located in Dawson County
      • Cozad
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Overton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Overton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overton
        • Overton is located in Dawson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 564 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Overton <4>
      • Farnam
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Trued
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trued have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trued
        • Trued is located in Dawson County
      • Willow Island
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island
        • Willow Island is located in Dawson County
      • Buffalo
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
        • Buffalo is located in Dawson County
      • Gothenburg
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Frontier County
    • County Website:   www.co.frontier.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Frontier:   Stockville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Eustis
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eustis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eustis
        • Eustis is located in Frontier County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 369 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eustis <4>
      • Orafino
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orafino
        • Orafino is located in Frontier County
      • Stockville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Freedom
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freedom have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
        • Freedom is located in Frontier County
      • Moorefield
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Furnas County
    • County Seat for Furnas:   Beaver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Arapahoe
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Holbrook
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holbrook
        • Holbrook is located in Furnas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holbrook <4>
      • Edison
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Oxford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
        • Oxford is located in Furnas County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 711 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oxford <4>
      • Cambridge
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Hollinger
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hollinger have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollinger
        • Hollinger is located in Furnas County
  • Harlan County
    • County Seat for Harlan:   Alma
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Mascot
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascot
        • Mascot is located in Harlan County
      • Oxford Junction
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford Junction
        • Oxford Junction is located in Harlan County
  • Phelps County
    • County Seat for Phelps:   Holdrege
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elwood.
      • Bertrand
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Westmark
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmark
        • Westmark is located in Phelps County
      • Loomis
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Atlanta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Atlanta have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlanta
        • Atlanta is located in Phelps County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Atlanta <4>
      • Clyde
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clyde have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
        • Clyde is located in Phelps County
      • Holdrege
        (27 miles [43.5 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- Elwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Elwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5896, Longitude: -99.8619       In this case, the coordinates for Elwood 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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