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Nearest Communities to Olean,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Olean is located in Valley County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Valley County: Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard, Loup, Sherman & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Olean. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Valley 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 Olean (which is Valley 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 Olean

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

  • Valley County   (where Olean resides)
    • County Website:   https://valleycountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Ord
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olean   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olean.
      • Sumter
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Sumter is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumter
      • Spelts
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Spelts is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spelts
      • North Loup
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Saunders
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Saunders is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
      • Ord
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Ord is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <3>
      • Vinton ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Vinton is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
      • Elyria
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Geranium ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Geranium is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
      • Arcadia
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Boone County
  • Custer County
  • Garfield County
    • County Website:   https://garfieldcounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Garfield:   Burwell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olean   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olean.
      • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Burwell
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Gables ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Gables is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables
      • Deverre
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Deverre is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deverre
  • Greeley County
    • County Website:   https://greeleycounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Greeley:   Greeley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olean   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olean.
      • Horace ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Horace is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
      • Scotia Junction
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Scotia Junction is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotia Junction
      • Scotia
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Belfast
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Belfast is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
      • Greeley Center
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Greeley Center is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Center
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
      • Greeley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • O'Connor
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • O'Connor is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Connor
      • Brayton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Brayton is located in Greeley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brayton
      • Spalding
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Wolbach
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Howard County
    • County Website:   https://howardcounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Saint Paul
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olean   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olean.
      • Cotesfield
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Cotesfield is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotesfield
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
      • Dannevirke
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Dannevirke is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dannevirke
      • Paplin ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Paplin is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paplin
      • Elba
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Farwell
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Midway
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Cushing
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Cushing is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cushing
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
      • Saint Paul
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Loup County
  • Sherman County
  • Wheeler County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Olean) 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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