Nearest Communities to North Loup City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to North Loup City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for North Loup City:
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 from North Loup City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
North Loup City is located in Sherman County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sherman County: Buffalo, Custer, Greeley, Howard & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 53 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of North Loup City. Of these communities, 48 are located in counties other than Sherman 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 North Loup City (which is Sherman 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 North Loup City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sherman County (where North Loup City resides)
- County Website: https://shermancounty.nebraska.gov/
- County Seat for Sherman: Loup City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Loup City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Loup City is located in Sherman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loup City
- 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>
- Ashton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Rockville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Litchfield
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hazard
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Buffalo County
- County Website: https://buffalocounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Buffalo: Kearney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Sweetwater
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Sweetwater is located in Buffalo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
- Nantasket ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Nantasket is located in Buffalo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantasket
- Ravenna
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Saint Michael
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Michael is located in Buffalo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Michael
- Poole
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Poole is located in Buffalo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole
- Pleasanton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Sartoria
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sartoria is located in Buffalo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartoria
- Custer County
- County Website: https://custercountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Custer: Broken Bow
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Mason City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Comstock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wescott
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wescott is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
- Ansley
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Westerville
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Weissert
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Berwyn
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Elton ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Elton is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
- Sargent
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Greeley County
- County Website: https://greeleycounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Greeley: Greeley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Scotia Junction
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Scotia Junction is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotia Junction
- Scotia
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Horace ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Horace is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
- Brayton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Brayton is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brayton
- Greeley Center
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
- Greeley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Belfast
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Belfast is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
- O'Connor
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- O'Connor is located in Greeley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
- Wolbach
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Hall County
- Howard County
- County Website: https://howardcounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Howard: Saint Paul
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Dannevirke
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Dannevirke is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannevirke
- Paplin ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Paplin is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paplin
- Cotesfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Cotesfield is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotesfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
- Farwell
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Elba
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Boelus
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Howard City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Howard City is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
- Midway
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Midway is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Nysted
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Nysted is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nysted
- Dannebrog
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Paul
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Cushing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Cushing is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cushing
- Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
- Valley County
- County Website: https://valleycountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Valley: Ord
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to North Loup City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from North Loup City.
- Arcadia
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Vinton ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Vinton is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
- North Loup
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Olean
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Olean is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olean
- Saunders
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Saunders is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
- Ord
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Spelts
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Spelts is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spelts
- Sumter
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Sumter is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumter
- Geranium ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Geranium is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
- Elyria
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- North Loup City) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |