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Nearest Communities to Point of Rocks,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 starting from Point of Rocks.<1>

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

Point of Rocks is located in Cheyenne County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cheyenne County: Logan (CO), Sedgwick (CO), Banner, Deuel, Garden, Kimball & Morrill.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Point of Rocks. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Cheyenne 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 Point of Rocks (which is Cheyenne 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 Point of Rocks

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

  • Cheyenne County   (where Point of Rocks resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.cheyenne.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Cheyenne:   Sidney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Point of Rocks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Point of Rocks.
      • Potter
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Brownson
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownson
        • Brownson is located in Cheyenne County
      • Mount Vernon
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Vernon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
        • Mount Vernon is located in Cheyenne County
      • Huntsman
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntsman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsman
        • Huntsman is located in Cheyenne County
      • Sidney
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Lorenzo
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorenzo
        • Lorenzo is located in Cheyenne County
      • Gurley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Dalton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Colton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Colton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colton
        • Colton is located in Cheyenne County
      • Sunol
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunol
        • Sunol is located in Cheyenne County
  • Kimball County
    • County Website:   www.co.kimball.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Kimball:   Kimball
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Point of Rocks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Point of Rocks.
      • Jacinto
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jacinto have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacinto
        • Jacinto is located in Kimball County
      • Dix
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
        • Dix is located in Kimball County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dix <3>
      • Owasco
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Owasco have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owasco
        • Owasco is located in Kimball County
      • Kimball
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Stahlas North Court
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stahlas North Court have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stahlas North Court
        • Stahlas North Court is located in Kimball County
      • Oliver
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oliver have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver
        • Oliver is located in Kimball County
  • Morrill County
    • County Seat for Morrill:   Bridgeport
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Point of Rocks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Point of Rocks.
      • Redington
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redington
        • Redington is located in Morrill County
      • Alden ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alden. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alden
        • Alden is located in Morrill County
  • Logan County
    • County Website:   www.loganco.gov/
    • County Seat for Logan:   Sterling (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Point of Rocks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Point of Rocks.
      • Peetz
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peetz
        • Peetz is located in Logan County (CO)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Peetz <3>
      • Buchanan ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Buchanan. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
        • Buchanan is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Westplains
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westplains have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westplains
        • Westplains is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Padroni
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Point of Rocks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Point of Rocks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2103, Longitude: -103.2460       In this case, the coordinates for Point of Rocks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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