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Nearest Communities to Fort Robinson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Fort Robinson.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Fort Robinson is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Dawes County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawes County: Box Butte, Sheridan, Sioux, Fall River (SD) & Oglala Lakota (SD).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Robinson. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Dawes County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Fort Robinson (which is Dawes 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 Fort Robinson

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

  • Dawes County   (where Fort Robinson resides)
    • County Website:   https://dawescounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawes:   Chadron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Robinson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Robinson.
      • Crawford
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Horn
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Horn is located in Dawes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
      • Belmont
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Belmont is located in Dawes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
      • Pine Ridge
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Pine Ridge is located in Dawes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
      • Whitney
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Marsland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Dakota Junction
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
      • Prairie Pines Retirement Community
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Chadron
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Box Butte County
  • Sioux County
    • County Website:   https://siouxcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Harrison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Robinson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Robinson.
      • Glen
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Glen is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen
      • Joder
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Joder is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joder
      • Five Points
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Five Points is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
      • Andrews
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Andrews is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews
      • Orella
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Orella is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orella
      • Harrison
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Montrose ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Montrose is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose
      • Agate
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Agate is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agate
      • Story
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Story is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
  • Fall River County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Robinson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Fort Robinson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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