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 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<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: https://siouxcountyne.gov/
- County Seat for Sioux: Harrison
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Joder
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Joder is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joder
- Montrose ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Montrose is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose
- Five Points
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Five Points is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Glen
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Glen is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen
- Andrews
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Andrews is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews
- Story
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Story is located in Sioux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
- Harrison
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Dawes County
- County Website: https://dawescounty.ne.gov/
- County Seat for Dawes: Chadron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Horn
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Horn is located in Dawes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
- Whitney
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Crawford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Fort Robinson ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Fort Robinson is located in Dawes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robinson
- Dakota Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
- Belmont
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Belmont is located in Dawes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
- Chadron
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Prairie Pines Retirement Community
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Pine Ridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Pine Ridge is located in Dawes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
- Fall River County
- County Website: https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
- County Seat for Fall River: Hot Springs (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Orella ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orella.
- Ardmore ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ardmore is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
- Rumford
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Rumford is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
- Heppner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Heppner is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
- Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
- Oelrichs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Provo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Ford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
- Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
- Igloo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Igloo is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igloo
- Cascade Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Orella) 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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