Nearest Communities to Purdum,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Purdum, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Purdum:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Purdum.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Purdum is located in Blaine County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Blaine County: Brown, Custer, Logan, Loup & Thomas.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Purdum. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Blaine 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 Purdum (which is Blaine 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 Purdum
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Blaine County (where Purdum resides)
- County Website: www.nol.org/blaine/
- County Seat for Blaine: Brewster
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Purdum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Purdum.
- Dunning
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunning
- Dunning is located in Blaine County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dunning <3>
- Blaine Center ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blaine Center have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blaine Center
- Blaine Center is located in Blaine County
- Brewster
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
- Brewster is located in Blaine County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brewster <3>
- Linscott
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Brown County
- County Seat for Brown: Ainsworth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Brown County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Brown County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Brown County
- Nearest Communities to Purdum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Purdum.
- Koshopah
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Raven
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Johnsons Corner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johnsons Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
- Johnsons Corner is located in Brown County
- Cherry County
- County Website: www.co.cherry.ne.us/
- County Seat for Cherry: Valentine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- Nearest Communities to Purdum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Purdum.
- Falter Place
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Falter Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falter Place
- Falter Place is located in Cherry County
- Elsmere
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsmere
- Elsmere is located in Cherry County
- Cascade
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Hartgraves Place
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartgraves Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartgraves Place
- Hartgraves Place is located in Cherry County
- Piercy Place
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Piercy Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piercy Place
- Piercy Place is located in Cherry County
- Audacious ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Brownlee
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee
- Brownlee is located in Cherry County
- Thomas County
- County Seat for Thomas: Thedford
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Thomas County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Thomas County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Thomas County
- Nearest Communities to Purdum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Purdum.
- Halsey
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halsey have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halsey
- Halsey is located in Thomas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 83 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Halsey <3>
- Natick
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest) - Thedford
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thedford
- Thedford is located in Thomas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Thedford <3>
- Norway
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Seneca
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca
- Seneca is located in Thomas County
- Estimated population in 2015: 35 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Seneca <3>
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- Purdum) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Purdum. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0649, Longitude: -100.2584 |
| <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. |