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Nearest Communities to Farnam,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Farnam is located in Dawson County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Buffalo, Custer, Frontier, Gosper, Lincoln & Phelps.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Farnam. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Farnam (which is Dawson 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 Farnam

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

  • Dawson County   (where Farnam resides)
    • County Website:   www.dawsoncountyne.net/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Farnam   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Farnam.
      • Willow Island
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island
        • Willow Island is located in Dawson County
      • Gothenburg
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Cozad
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Darr
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
      • Lexington
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Buffalo
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
        • Buffalo is located in Dawson County
  • Custer County
  • Frontier County
    • County Website:   www.co.frontier.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Frontier:   Stockville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Farnam   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Farnam.
      • Moorefield
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Eustis
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eustis have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <3>
      • Orafino
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orafino
        • Orafino is located in Frontier County
      • Stockville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Curtis
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Freedom
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freedom have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
        • Freedom is located in Frontier County
      • Maywood
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Quick
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quick have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quick
        • Quick is located in Frontier County
  • Furnas County
    • County Seat for Furnas:   Beaver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Farnam   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Farnam.
      • Cambridge
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Holbrook
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <3>
  • Gosper County
    • County Seat for Gosper:   Elwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Farnam   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Farnam.
      • Devils Gap
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devils Gap have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Gap
        • Devils Gap is located in Gosper County
      • Elwood
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
        • Elwood is located in Gosper County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 679 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elwood <3>
      • Smithfield
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Lincoln County
    • County Website:   www.co.lincoln.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   North Platte
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Farnam   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Farnam.
      • Vroman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vroman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vroman
        • Vroman is located in Lincoln County
      • Brady
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brady have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brady
        • Brady is located in Lincoln County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brady <3>
      • Wellfleet
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Maxwell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maxwell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
        • Maxwell is located in Lincoln County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Maxwell <3>

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 from Point A (ie- Farnam) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Farnam. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7072, Longitude: -100.2147    
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.




 

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