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Nearest Communities to Flats,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 from Flats.<1>

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

Flats is located in McPherson County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McPherson County: Arthur, Grant, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan & Thomas.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Flats. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than McPherson 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 Flats (which is McPherson 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 Flats

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

  • McPherson County   (where Flats resides)
  • Arthur County
    • County Website:   https://arthurcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Arthur:   Arthur
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Flats   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Flats.
      • Bucktail
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Bucktail is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktail
      • Calora
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Calora is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calora
      • Lena
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Lena is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
      • Lyons Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Lyons Place is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons Place
      • Rounds Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Rounds Place is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rounds Place
      • Arthur
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • McKeag
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • McKeag is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeag
      • Velma
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Velma is located in Arthur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Velma
  • Keith County
    • County Website:   https://www.keithcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Keith:   Ogallala
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Flats   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Flats.
      • Broganville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Broganville is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broganville
      • Nevens
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Nevens is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevens
      • Sarben
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Sarben is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarben
      • Keystone
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Martin
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Martin is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
      • Paxton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Lincoln County

Footnotes ...

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