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Nearest Communities to Finchville,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Finchville.<1>

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

Finchville is located in Custer County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Buffalo, Dawson, Garfield, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Sherman & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Finchville. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Finchville (which is Custer 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 Finchville

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

  • Custer County   (where Finchville resides)
    • County Website:   https://custercountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Finchville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Finchville.
      • Arnold
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Pleasant Hill
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Pleasant Hill is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
      • Callaway
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Etna
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Etna is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Lodi
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Lodi is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
      • Dale ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Dale is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
      • Merna
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Anselmo
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Oconto
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Broken Bow
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Broken Bow is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Bow
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,437 people
        • Broken Bow has also been known as:
        • Brokenbow
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Broken Bow <3>
      • New Helena
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • New Helena is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Helena
      • Lillian
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lillian is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillian
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Gates
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Gates is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
        • Buckeye
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Buckeye is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
        • Berwyn
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Milburn
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Milburn is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburn
  • Blaine County
  • Dawson County
  • Lincoln County
  • Logan County
    • County Website:   https://logancounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Logan:   Stapleton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Finchville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Finchville.
      • Logan
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Logan is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
      • Hoagland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Hoagland is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoagland
      • Gandy
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Gandy is located in Logan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gandy
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
      • Stapleton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)

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 from Point A (ie- Finchville) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.