Nearest Communities to Peters,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Peters, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Peters:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Peters.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Peters is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Sheridan County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sheridan County: Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill & Oglala Lakota (SD).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Peters. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Sheridan County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Peters (which is Sheridan 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 Peters
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sheridan County (where Peters resides)
- County Seat for Sheridan: Rushville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- Nearest Communities to Peters ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Peters.
- Hilton ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Marple ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest) - Grayson ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Hay Springs
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hay Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Springs
- Hay Springs is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 527 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hay Springs <5>
- Lulu ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Rushville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rushville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville
- Rushville is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 871 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rushville <5>
- Clinton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Adaton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Jennings ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Hoffland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Gordon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
- Gordon is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,486 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gordon <5>
- Antioch ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antioch
- Antioch is located in Sheridan County
- Box Butte County
- County Website: www.co.box-butte.ne.us/
- County Seat for Box Butte: Alliance
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Box Butte County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Box Butte County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Box Butte County
- Nearest Communities to Peters ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Peters.
- Hemingford
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hemingford have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemingford
- Hemingford is located in Box Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 763 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hemingford <5>
- Berea
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berea
- Berea is located in Box Butte County
- Nonpareil
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Alliance
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alliance
- Alliance is located in Box Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,029 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alliance <5>
- Trailerville Court
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trailerville Court have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailerville Court
- Trailerville Court is located in Box Butte County
- 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 Peters ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Peters.
- Bordeaux ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Chadron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chadron have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- 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
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Pines Retirement Community have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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
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 from Point A (ie- Peters) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Peters. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5055, Longitude: -102.6358 In this case, the coordinates for Peters have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Peters, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
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