Nearest Communities to Orella,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Orella, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Orella:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Orella.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Orella is located in Sioux County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sioux County: Box Butte, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Fall River (SD), Goshen (WY) & Niobrara (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Orella. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Sioux 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 Orella (which is Sioux 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 Orella
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sioux County (where Orella resides)
- County Website: www.co.sioux.ne.us/
- County Seat for Sioux: Harrison
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Joder
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Montrose ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west) - Five Points
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Five Points have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Five Points is located in Sioux County
- Glen
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Andrews
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest) - Story
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Harrison
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Harrison is located in Sioux County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 230 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrison <5>
- Dawes County
- County Website: www.co.dawes.ne.us/
- County Seat for Dawes: Chadron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Dawes County
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Horn
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south) - Whitney
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Whitney is located in Dawes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitney <5>
- Crawford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Crawford is located in Dawes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 905 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crawford <5>
- Fort Robinson ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Robinson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robinson
- Fort Robinson is located in Dawes County
- Dakota Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dakota Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
- Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County
- Belmont
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
- Belmont is located in Dawes County
- Chadron
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chadron
- Chadron is located in Dawes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,250 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chadron <5>
- Prairie Pines Retirement Community
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Pines Retirement Community have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Pines Retirement Community
- Prairie Pines Retirement Community is located in Dawes County
- Pine Ridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
- Pine Ridge is located in Dawes County
- Fall River County
- County Seat for Fall River: Hot Springs (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Ardmore ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
- Ardmore is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Rumford
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest) - Heppner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Oelrichs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oelrichs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oelrichs
- Oelrichs is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 124 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oelrichs <5>
- Provo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provo
- Provo is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 32 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Provo <5>
- Rocky Ford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
- Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
- Igloo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Cascade Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cascade Springs. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
- Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County (SD)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Orella) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Orella. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8933, Longitude: -103.5005 In this case, the coordinates for Orella 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. |
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