Nearest Communities to Hay Springs,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hay Springs, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hay Springs:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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 Hay Springs.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Hay Springs is located in Sheridan County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sheridan County: Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill & Oglala Lakota (SD).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hay Springs. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Sheridan 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 Hay Springs (which is Sheridan 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 Hay Springs
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sheridan County (where Hay Springs resides)
- County Seat for Sheridan: Rushville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- Nearest Communities to Hay Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Springs.
- Rushville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rushville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville
- Rushville is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 871 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rushville <4>
- Peters ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Adaton ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Clinton
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Marple ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Hilton ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Grayson ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast) - Whiteclay
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiteclay
- Whiteclay is located in Sheridan County
- Whiteclay has also been known as:
- Pine Ridge
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whiteclay <4>
- Gordon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
- Gordon is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,486 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gordon <4>
- Lulu ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Albany ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dawes County
- County Website: www.co.dawes.ne.us/
- County Seat for Dawes: Chadron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- Nearest Communities to Hay Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Springs.
- Bordeaux ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Chadron
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chadron have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chadron
- Chadron is located in Dawes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,250 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chadron <4>
- Prairie Pines Retirement Community
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Pines Retirement Community have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Pines Retirement Community
- Prairie Pines Retirement Community is located in Dawes County
- Dakota Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dakota Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
- Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County
- Whitney
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Whitney is located in Dawes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitney <4>
- Oglala Lakota County
- County Website: oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- Nearest Communities to Hay Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Springs.
- Pine Ridge
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
- Pine Ridge is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pine Ridge <4>
- Slim Butte
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Slim Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slim Butte
- Slim Butte is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hay Springs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hay Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6832, Longitude: -102.6896 In this case, the coordinates for Hay Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |