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Nearest Communities to Hoffland,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Hoffland.<1>

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

Hoffland 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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hoffland. Of these communities, 9 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 Hoffland (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 Hoffland

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

  • Sheridan County   (where Hoffland resides)
    • County Website:   https://sheridancounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Rushville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoffland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoffland.
      • Antioch ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Antioch is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antioch
      • Lakeside
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Lulu ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Lulu is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulu
      • Ellsworth
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Marple ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Marple is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marple
      • Jennings ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Jennings is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings
      • Hilton ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Hilton is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilton
      • Bingham
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Peters ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Peters is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters
      • Grayson ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Grayson is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayson
  • Box Butte County
    • County Website:   https://boxbuttecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Box Butte:   Alliance
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoffland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoffland.
      • Alliance
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Trailerville Court
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Trailerville Court is located in Box Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailerville Court
      • Letan
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Letan is located in Box Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letan
      • Berea
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Berea is located in Box Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berea
      • Hemingford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Garden County
  • Morrill 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 from Point A (ie- Hoffland) 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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