Nearest Communities to Elyria,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Elyria, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Elyria:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Elyria is located in Valley County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Valley County: Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard, Loup, Sherman & Wheeler.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elyria. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Valley 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 Elyria (which is Valley 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 Elyria
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Valley County (where Elyria resides)
- County Website: https://valleycountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Valley: Ord
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Ord
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Saunders
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Saunders is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
- Geranium ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Geranium is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
- Vinton ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Vinton is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
- Spelts
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Spelts is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spelts
- Sumter
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sumter is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumter
- Olean
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Olean is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olean
- North Loup
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Arcadia
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Custer County
- County Website: https://custercountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Custer: Broken Bow
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Comstock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Wescott
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Wescott is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
- Sargent
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- West Union ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- West Union is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
- Cummings Park ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Cummings Park is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Park
- Weissert
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Elton ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Elton is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
- Westerville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Round Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Round Valley is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
- Walworth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Walworth is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walworth
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Burwell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Willow Springs ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
- Burwell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Deverre
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Deverre is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deverre
- Gables ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Gables is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables
- Greeley County
- County Website: https://greeleycounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Greeley: Greeley
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- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Horace ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Horace is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
- Belfast
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Belfast is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
- Scotia Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Scotia Junction is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotia Junction
- Scotia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Greeley Center
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
- Greeley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- O'Connor
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- O'Connor is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
- Howard County
- County Website: https://howardcounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Howard: Saint Paul
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Cotesfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cotesfield is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotesfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
- Dannevirke
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dannevirke is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannevirke
- Paplin ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Paplin is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paplin
- Loup County
- County Website: https://loupcounty.nebraska.gov/
- County Seat for Loup: Taylor
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Kent ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Kent is located in Loup County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
- Aggies Acres
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Aggies Acres is located in Loup County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aggies Acres
- Mikes Meadows
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Mikes Meadows is located in Loup County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mikes Meadows
- Taylor
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Almeria
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Almeria is located in Loup County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almeria
- Sherman County
- County Website: https://shermancounty.nebraska.gov/
- County Seat for Sherman: Loup City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- North Loup City
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- North Loup City is located in Sherman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Loup City
- Loup City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Loup City is located in Sherman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loup City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 960 people
- Loup City has also been known as:
- Loup
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- Wheeler County
- County Website: https://wheelercounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Wheeler: Bartlett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elyria ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elyria.
- Ericson
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Bartlett
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Wheeler ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wheeler is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Elyria) 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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