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Nearest Communities to Prairie View Estates,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Prairie View Estates is located in Buffalo County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Buffalo County: Adams, Custer, Dawson, Hall, Howard, Kearney, Phelps & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairie View Estates. Of these communities, 33 are located in counties other than Buffalo 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 Prairie View Estates (which is Buffalo 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 Prairie View Estates

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

  • Buffalo County   (where Prairie View Estates resides)
    • County Website:   https://buffalocounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Kearney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie View Estates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie View Estates.
      • Kearney
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • R-Villa Courts
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • R-Villa Courts is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for R-Villa Courts
      • Glenwood Park
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Glenwood Park is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Park
      • Buda
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Buda is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buda
      • Alfalfa Center
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Alfalfa Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa Center
      • Riverdale
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Odessa
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Prairie Center
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Prairie Center is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Center
      • Gibbon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Amherst
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Elm Creek
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Denman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Denman is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denman
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Pleasanton
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Shelton
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Poole
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Poole is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole
        • Sartoria
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Sartoria is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartoria
        • Miller
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Ravenna
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Sweetwater
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Sweetwater is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
        • Nantasket ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Nantasket is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantasket
        • Saint Michael
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Saint Michael is located in Buffalo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Michael
  • Adams County
    • County Website:   https://adamscountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Adams:   Hastings
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie View Estates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie View Estates.
      • Kenesaw
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Hayland
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Hayland is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayland
      • Prosser
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Prosser is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosser
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
      • Holstein
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Assumption
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Assumption is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assumption
  • Dawson County
  • Franklin County
  • Hall County
  • Harlan County
  • Kearney County
    • County Website:   https://kearneycounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Kearney:   Minden
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie View Estates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie View Estates.
      • Kearney City ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Kearney City is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearney City
        • Kearney City has also been known as:
        • Dobytown
      • Newark
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Newark is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark
      • Valley City ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Valley City is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley City
      • Lowell
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Lowell is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
      • Axtell
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Minden
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Koller
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Koller is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koller
      • Heartwell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Keene
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Keene is located in Kearney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keene
      • Norman
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Wilcox
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Phelps County
    • County Website:   https://phelpscounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Phelps:   Holdrege
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie View Estates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie View Estates.
      • Funk
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Sacramento
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Sacramento is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacramento
      • Holdrege
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Westmark
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Westmark is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmark
      • Clyde
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Clyde is located in Phelps County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Loomis
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Atlanta
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Sherman County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Prairie View Estates) 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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