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Nearest Communities to Hershey,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Hershey.<1>

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

Hershey is located in Lincoln County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Hayes, Keith, Logan, McPherson & Perkins.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hershey. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Hershey (which is Lincoln 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 Hershey

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Hershey resides)
    • County Website:   https://lincolncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   North Platte
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hershey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hershey.
      • O'Fallons
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • O'Fallons is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Fallons
      • Birdwood
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Birdwood is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdwood
      • Coker
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Coker is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coker
      • Sutherland
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Village Square
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Village Square is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Square
      • Key Estates
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Key Estates is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Estates
      • Mobile Manor
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Mobile Manor is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile Manor
      • North Platte
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Sioux View Park
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Sioux View Park is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux View Park
      • Beck
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Beck is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck
      • Bignell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Bignell is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bignell
      • Keith
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Keith is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keith
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Dickens
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Wallace
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Myrtle ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Myrtle is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle
        • Somerset
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Somerset is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
        • Maxwell
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Keith County
    • County Website:   https://www.keithcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Keith:   Ogallala
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hershey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hershey.
      • Sarben
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Sarben is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarben
      • Paxton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Nevens
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Nevens is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevens
      • Broganville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Broganville is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broganville
      • Keystone
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Roscoe
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Roscoe is located in Keith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe
  • McPherson County
  • Perkins County

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- Hershey) 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.
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