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Nearest Communities to Headquarters,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.<1>

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

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

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wheeler County: Antelope, Boone, Garfield, Greeley, Holt & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Headquarters. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Wheeler 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 Headquarters (which is Wheeler 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 Headquarters

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

  • Wheeler County   (where Headquarters resides)
    • County Website:   https://wheelercounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Bartlett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Headquarters   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Headquarters.
      • Stokes Ranch
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Stokes Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Ranch
      • Mignery Ranch
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Mignery Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mignery Ranch
      • Cumminsville
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cumminsville is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumminsville
      • Day Ranch
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Day Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day Ranch
      • Koinzan Ranch
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Koinzan Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koinzan Ranch
      • Bartlett
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Wheeler ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Wheeler is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
      • Ericson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Antelope County
  • Boone County
    • County Website:   https://boonecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Boone:   Albion
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Headquarters   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Headquarters.
      • Akron
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Akron is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akron
      • Petersburg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Raeville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Raeville is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raeville
      • Loretto
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Loretto is located in Boone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loretto
      • Primrose
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Garfield County
  • Greeley County
    • County Website:   https://greeleycounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Greeley:   Greeley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Headquarters   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Headquarters.
      • Spalding
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Belfast
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Belfast is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
      • Greeley Center
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
      • Greeley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Horace ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Horace is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
      • O'Connor
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • O'Connor is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
  • Holt County
    • County Website:   https://holtcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Holt:   O'Neill
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Headquarters   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Headquarters.
      • Deloit
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Deloit is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deloit
      • Knievels Corner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Knievels Corner is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knievels Corner
      • Chambers
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Ewing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Stafford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Stafford is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford
      • Amelia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Emporia ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Emporia is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emporia
      • Inman
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Swan Lake
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Swan Lake is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Lake
  • Valley County

Footnotes ...

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