Nearest Communities to Lena,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lena, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lena:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Lena.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Lena is located in Arthur County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Arthur County: Garden, Grant, Hooker, Keith & McPherson.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lena. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Arthur 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 Lena (which is Arthur 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 Lena
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Arthur County (where Lena resides)
- County Seat for Arthur: Arthur
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Arthur County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Arthur County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Arthur County
- Nearest Communities to Lena ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lena.
- Calora
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Rounds Place
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rounds Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rounds Place
- Rounds Place is located in Arthur County
- Bucktail
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Lyons Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyons Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons Place
- Lyons Place is located in Arthur County
- Arthur
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arthur
- Arthur is located in Arthur County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arthur <5>
- McKeag
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest) - Velma
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Grant County
- County Seat for Grant: Hyannis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Grant County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Grant County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Grant County
- Nearest Communities to Lena ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lena.
- Duluth
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Whitman
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitman
- Whitman is located in Grant County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitman <5>
- Hyannis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hyannis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <5>
- Hooker County
- County Website: www.co.hooker.ne.us/
- County Seat for Hooker: Mullen
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Hooker County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Hooker County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Hooker County
- Nearest Communities to Lena ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lena.
- Weir
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Heil School ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heil School
- Heil School is located in Hooker County
- Heil School has also been known as:
- Hecla
- McPherson County
- County Seat for McPherson: Tryon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- McPherson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- McPherson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- McPherson County
- Nearest Communities to Lena ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lena.
- Flats
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Tryon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tryon
- Tryon is located in McPherson County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tryon <5>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lena) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lena. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7011, Longitude: -101.4985 In this case, the coordinates for Lena have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <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> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |