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Nearest Communities to Mason City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village 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.

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 starting from Mason City.<1>

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

Mason City is located in Custer County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Buffalo, Dawson, Garfield, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Sherman & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mason City. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Mason City (which is Custer 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 Mason City

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

  • Custer County   (where Mason City resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.custer.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mason City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mason City.
      • Ansley
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Westerville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Cumro ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumro
        • Cumro is located in Custer County
      • Berwyn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Berwyn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwyn
        • Berwyn is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 79 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Berwyn <3>
      • Buckeye
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
        • Buckeye is located in Custer County
      • Burr Oak
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burr Oak have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Oak
        • Burr Oak is located in Custer County
      • Weissert
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Wescott
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
        • Wescott is located in Custer County
      • Broken Bow
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Bow
        • Broken Bow is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,437 people
        • Broken Bow has also been known as:
        • Brokenbow
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Broken Bow <3>
      • Elton ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
        • Elton is located in Custer County
      • Comstock
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comstock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <3>
      • Oconto
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Round Valley
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Round Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
          • Round Valley is located in Custer County
        • Lodi
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodi have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
          • Lodi is located in Custer County
        • Sargent
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Merna
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Merna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merna
          • Merna is located in Custer County
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 360 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Merna <3>
  • Buffalo County
    • County Website:   www.buffalogov.org/
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Kearney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mason City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mason City.
      • Sartoria
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartoria
        • Sartoria is located in Buffalo County
      • Sweetwater
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
        • Sweetwater is located in Buffalo County
      • Miller
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Pleasanton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Poole
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole
        • Poole is located in Buffalo County
      • Ravenna
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Amherst
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Nantasket ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nantasket have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantasket
        • Nantasket is located in Buffalo County
      • Prairie Center
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Center
        • Prairie Center is located in Buffalo County
  • Dawson County
  • Howard County
  • Sherman County
    • County Website:   www.co.sherman.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Loup City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mason City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mason City.
      • Litchfield
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Litchfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litchfield
        • Litchfield is located in Sherman County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 248 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Litchfield <3>
      • Hazard
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Loup City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • 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 <3>
      • North Loup City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Loup City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Loup City
        • North Loup City is located in Sherman County
      • Rockville
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Ashton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Valley County
    • County Website:   www.co.valley.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Ord
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mason City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mason City.
      • Arcadia
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Vinton ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vinton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
        • Vinton is located in Valley County
      • Geranium ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Geranium have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
        • Geranium is located in Valley County

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 from Point A (ie- Mason City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mason City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2222, Longitude: -99.2988       In this case, the coordinates for Mason City 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.




 

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