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Nearest Communities to Plainview,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Plainview is located in Pierce County.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plainview. Of these communities, 39 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 Plainview (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 Plainview

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

  • Pierce County   (where Plainview resides)
    • County Website:   https://piercecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Pierce
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Breslau
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Breslau is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breslau
      • Foster
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Osmond
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • McLean
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Pierce
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • West Randolph ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • West Randolph is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Randolph
      • Wee Town
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Wee Town is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wee Town
      • Hadar
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Antelope County
  • Cedar County
    • County Website:   https://cedarcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Cedar:   Hartington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Magnet
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Randolph
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Pleasant Valley
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Belden
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Constance
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Constance is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Constance
  • Holt County
  • Knox County
    • County Website:   https://knoxcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Knox:   Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Midland
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Midland is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
      • Creighton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Bazile Mills
        (12 miles [19.3 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
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Wausa
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bloomfield
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Center
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Verdigre
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sparta
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Sparta is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparta
      • Walnut
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Walnut is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut
      • Venus ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Venus is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venus
      • Lindy
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Lindy is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindy
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Jelen
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Jelen is located in Knox County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jelen
        • Tewsville ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Tewsville is located in Knox County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tewsville
        • Ponca
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Ponca is located in Knox County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponca
        • Crofton
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Dukeville
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Dukeville is located in Knox County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukeville
        • Niobrara
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Madison County
  • Wayne County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Plainview) 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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