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Nearest Communities to Overton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Overton.<1>

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

Overton is located in Dawson County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Buffalo, Custer, Frontier, Gosper, Lincoln & Phelps.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 41 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Overton. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Overton (which is Dawson 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 Overton

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

  • Dawson County   (where Overton resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.dawsoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Overton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Overton.
      • Trued
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Trued is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trued
      • Josselyn
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Josselyn is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josselyn
      • Lexington
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Sumner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Darr
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
      • Eddyville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Buffalo
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Buffalo is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
      • Cozad
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Willow Island
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Willow Island is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island
  • Buffalo County
    • County Website:   https://buffalocounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Kearney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Overton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Overton.
      • Elm Creek
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Odessa
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Miller
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Amherst
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Alfalfa Center
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Alfalfa Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa Center
      • Riverdale
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • R-Villa Courts
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • R-Villa Courts is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for R-Villa Courts
      • Glenwood Park
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Glenwood Park is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Park
      • Kearney
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Sartoria
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Sartoria is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartoria
      • Prairie View Estates
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Prairie View Estates is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie View Estates
      • Prairie Center
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Prairie Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Center
      • Buda
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Buda is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buda
      • Pleasanton
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Custer County
  • Frontier County
  • Gosper County
  • Kearney County
  • Phelps County
    • County Website:   https://phelpscounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Phelps:   Holdrege
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Overton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Overton.
      • Westmark
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Westmark is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmark
      • Bertrand
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Loomis
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Holdrege
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Clyde
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Clyde is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Funk
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Atlanta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Sacramento
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Sacramento is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacramento

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 from Point A (ie- Overton) 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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