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Nearest Communities to Harrison,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 starting from Harrison.<1>

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

Harrison is located in Sioux County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sioux County: Box Butte, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Fall River (SD), Goshen (WY) & Niobrara (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Harrison. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Sioux 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 Harrison (which is Sioux 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 Harrison

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

  • Sioux County   (where Harrison resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.sioux.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Harrison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrison.
      • Andrews
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Andrews have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews
        • Andrews is located in Sioux County
      • Five Points
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Five Points have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
        • Five Points is located in Sioux County
      • Glen
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Glen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen
        • Glen is located in Sioux County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Glen
        • From Harrison to Glen
      • Story
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Story have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
        • Story is located in Sioux County
      • Montrose ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Montrose. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose
        • Montrose is located in Sioux County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Montrose
        • From Harrison to Montrose
      • Agate
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Agate have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agate
        • Agate is located in Sioux County
      • Joder
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joder have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joder
        • Joder is located in Sioux County
      • Orella
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orella have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orella
        • Orella is located in Sioux County
  • Dawes County
    • County Website:   www.co.dawes.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Dawes:   Chadron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrison.
      • Fort Robinson ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Robinson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robinson
        • Fort Robinson is located in Dawes County
      • Horn
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Horn. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
        • Horn is located in Dawes County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Horn
        • From Harrison to Horn
      • Crawford
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Pine Ridge
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
        • Pine Ridge is located in Dawes County
      • Belmont
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Fall River County
  • Goshen County
  • Niobrara County
    • County Seat for Niobrara:   Lusk (WY)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrison.
      • Van Tassell
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Kirtley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Whitman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitman
        • Whitman is located in Niobrara County (WY)
      • Node
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Node have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Node
        • Node is located in Niobrara County (WY)
      • Lusk
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Hat Creek ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hat Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hat Creek
        • Hat Creek is located in Niobrara County (WY)

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- Harrison) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Harrison. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6886, Longitude: -103.8830    
<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>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.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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