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Nearest Communities to Pierce,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Pierce.<1>

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

Pierce is located in Pierce County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pierce County: Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Madison, Stanton & Wayne.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pierce. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Pierce 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 Pierce (which is Pierce 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 Pierce

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

  • Pierce County   (where Pierce resides)
    • County Website:   https://piercecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Pierce
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pierce   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pierce.
      • Wee Town
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Wee Town is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wee Town
      • Hadar
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Foster
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Osmond
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • McLean
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Breslau
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Breslau is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breslau
      • West Randolph ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • West Randolph is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Randolph
      • Plainview
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Antelope County
  • Boone County
  • Cedar County
    • County Website:   https://cedarcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Cedar:   Hartington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pierce   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pierce.
      • Randolph
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Magnet
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Belden
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Coleridge
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Laurel
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Pleasant Valley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
  • Dixon County
  • Knox County
    • County Website:   https://knoxcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Knox:   Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pierce   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pierce.
      • Wausa
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Midland
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Midland is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
      • Creighton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Bloomfield
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Bazile Mills
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Bazile Mills is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazile Mills
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
      • Winnetoon
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Madison County
    • County Website:   https://madisoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Madison:   Madison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pierce   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pierce.
      • Norfolk
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Battle Creek
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Meadow Grove
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Warnerville
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Warnerville is located in Madison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warnerville
      • Tilden
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Enola
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Enola is located in Madison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enola
      • Fairview ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Fairview is located in Madison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Emerick
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Emerick is located in Madison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerick
      • Madison
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Kalamazoo
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Kalamazoo is located in Madison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalamazoo
  • Stanton County
  • Wayne County
    • County Website:   https://www.waynecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Wayne:   Wayne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pierce   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pierce.
      • Hoskins
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Sholes
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Sholes is located in Wayne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sholes
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
      • Carroll
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Winside
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Wayne
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Altona
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Altona is located in Wayne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altona

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pierce) 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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