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Nearest Communities to Heil School,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Heil School<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Hooker County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hooker County: Arthur, Cherry, Grant, McPherson & Thomas.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Heil School. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Hooker County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Heil School (which is Hooker 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 Heil School

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

  • Hooker County   (where Heil School resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.hooker.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Hooker:   Mullen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Heil School   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Heil School.
      • Weir
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weir have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weir
        • Weir is located in Hooker County
      • Mullen
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Kelso
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kelso have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelso
        • Kelso is located in Hooker County
  • Arthur County
    • County Seat for Arthur:   Arthur
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Heil School   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Heil School.
      • Lena
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lena have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
        • Lena is located in Arthur County
      • Calora
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calora have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calora
        • Calora is located in Arthur County
  • Cherry County
  • Grant County
    • County Seat for Grant:   Hyannis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Heil School   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Heil School.
      • Whitman
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Duluth
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Duluth have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duluth
        • Duluth is located in Grant County
      • Hyannis
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hyannis have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyannis
        • Hyannis is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hyannis <6>
  • Thomas 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- Heil School) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Heil School. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0389, Longitude: -101.2377    
<2>Heil School is also known as Hecla. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Heil School.
<3>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 Heil School, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<5>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.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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