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Nearest Communities to Maxwell,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Maxwell 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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Maxwell. Of these communities, 12 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 Maxwell (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 Maxwell

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Maxwell resides)
    • County Website:   https://lincolncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   North Platte
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Maxwell   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Maxwell.
      • Keith
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Keith is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keith
      • Bignell
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Bignell is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bignell
      • Beck
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Beck is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck
      • Brady
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • North Platte
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Sioux View Park
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Sioux View Park is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux View Park
      • Key Estates
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Key Estates is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Estates
      • Mobile Manor
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Mobile Manor is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile Manor
      • Vroman
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Vroman is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vroman
      • Village Square
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Village Square is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Square
      • Myrtle ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Myrtle is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle
      • Birdwood
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Birdwood is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdwood
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Somerset
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Somerset is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
        • Wellfleet
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Hershey
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Dickens
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • O'Fallons
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • O'Fallons is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Fallons
  • Custer County
  • Dawson County
  • Frontier County
  • Logan County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Maxwell) 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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