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Nearest Communities to Harrisburg,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Harrisburg is located in Banner County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Banner County: Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Goshen (WY) & Laramie (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Harrisburg. Of these communities, 55 are located in counties other than Banner 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 Harrisburg (which is Banner 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 Harrisburg

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

  • Kimball County
  • Morrill County
  • Scotts Bluff County
    • County Website:   https://scottsbluffcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Scotts Bluff:   Gering
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrisburg   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrisburg.
      • Gering
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Melbeta
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Terrytown
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Costin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Costin is located in Scotts Bluff County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Costin
      • Scottsbluff
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • McGrew
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • McGrew is located in Scotts Bluff County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGrew
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McGrew <3>
      • Minatare
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Haig
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Heldt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Heldt is located in Scotts Bluff County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heldt
      • Hillerage
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Hubbard Corner
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Hubbard Corner is located in Scotts Bluff County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard Corner
      • Covert
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Covert is located in Scotts Bluff County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covert
      • Continue List   (21 more) ...
        • Bradley
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Bradley is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
        • South Mitchell
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • South Mitchell is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mitchell
        • Trout
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Trout is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout
        • Carlson
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Carlson is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlson
        • Janise
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Janise is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janise
        • Stegall
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Jane
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Jane is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jane
        • Pelton
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Pelton is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelton
        • Baxter
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Baxter is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
        • Tony
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Tony is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tony
        • Hartman
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Hartman is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
        • Mitchell
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Caldwell ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Caldwell is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell
        • James
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • James is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
        • Mintle
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Mintle is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mintle
        • South Morrill
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • South Morrill is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Morrill
        • Sears
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Sears is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
        • Joyce
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Joyce is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyce
        • Morrill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Lyman
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Lyman is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 321 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyman <3>
        • Doyle
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Doyle is located in Scotts Bluff County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle
  • Goshen County
  • Laramie 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Harrisburg) 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.