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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Horace. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Horace to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Horace, please Contact Us.


We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Horace (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Horace. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Horace is historic, it would have been located within present day Greeley County.

To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Greeley County: Boone, Garfield, Howard, Nance, Sherman, Valley & Wheeler.

Below are the counties that are near Horace. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Horace:

  • Greeley County     (The home county of Horace)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Scotia
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Greeley Center
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greeley Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
      • Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
    • Greeley
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Brayton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brayton
      • Brayton is located in Greeley County
    • Wolbach
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Spalding
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spalding have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spalding
      • Spalding is located in Greeley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 432 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spalding <2>
  • Boone County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Primrose
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Primrose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Primrose
      • Primrose is located in Boone County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Primrose <2>
    • Akron
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Akron have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akron
      • Akron is located in Boone County
    • Cedar Rapids
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Rapids have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Rapids
      • Cedar Rapids is located in Boone County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cedar Rapids <2>
  • Custer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Comstock
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comstock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
      • Comstock is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Comstock <2>
    • Wescott
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
      • Wescott is located in Custer County
  • Garfield County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
    • Gables ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gables have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables
      • Gables is located in Garfield County
    • Burwell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Howard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Cotesfield
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotesfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotesfield
      • Cotesfield is located in Howard County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
    • Dannevirke
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannevirke
      • Dannevirke is located in Howard County
    • Elba
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Farwell
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Cushing
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cushing
      • Cushing is located in Howard County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
    • Saint Paul
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Nysted
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nysted
      • Nysted is located in Howard County
    • Dannebrog
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dannebrog have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannebrog
      • Dannebrog is located in Howard County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 307 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dannebrog <2>
  • Merrick County
    • Palmer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Palmer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmer
      • Palmer is located in Merrick County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 473 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Palmer <2>
  • Sherman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • North Loup City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Loup City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Loup City
      • North Loup City is located in Sherman County
    • Ashton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Loup City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loup City
      • Loup City is located in Sherman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 960 people
      • Loup City has also been known as:
      • Loup
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loup City <2>
    • Rockville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Valley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • North Loup
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ord
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
      • Ord is located in Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <2>
    • Elyria
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elyria have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elyria
      • Elyria is located in Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elyria <2>
    • Arcadia
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Wheeler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.
    • Ericson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Bartlett
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Horace, see our County-by-County Page for Horace.

Newspapers Published in Horace ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 101 newspapers that have been published in the area around Horace.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Horace, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Horace.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Horace:

Cemeteries Near Horace ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Horace.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Horace covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

Horace itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Horace, with the one closest to Horace listed first.

  • North Loup
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Scotia
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Sumter
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sumter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumter
    • Sumter is located in Valley County
  • Greeley Center
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greeley Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
    • Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
  • Greeley
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Belfast
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belfast have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
    • Belfast is located in Greeley County
  • Olean
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olean have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olean
    • Olean is located in Valley County
  • O'Connor
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for O'Connor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
    • O'Connor is located in Greeley County
  • Brayton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brayton
    • Brayton is located in Greeley County
  • Cotesfield
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotesfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotesfield
    • Cotesfield is located in Howard County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
  • Ord
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
    • Ord is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <2>
  • Dannevirke
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannevirke
    • Dannevirke is located in Howard County
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Ericson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Wolbach
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Elba
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Horace. See our List of 1890's Communities around Horace.

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Horace, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Horace) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Horace. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5419, Longitude: -98.6744    
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.









 

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