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Nearest Communities to Raven,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Please note 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.

Raven is located in Brown County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brown County: Blaine, Cherry, Keya Paha, Loup & Rock.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Raven. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Brown 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 Raven (which is Brown 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 Raven

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

  • Brown County   (where Raven resides)
    • County Website:   https://browncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Brown:   Ainsworth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Raven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Raven.
      • Johnsons Corner
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Johnsons Corner is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
      • Koshopah
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Koshopah is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koshopah
      • Ainsworth
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Sandridge
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Sandridge is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandridge
      • Long Pine
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Johnstown
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Winfield ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Winfield is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfield
  • Blaine County
  • Cherry County
    • County Website:   https://cherrycountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Cherry:   Valentine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Raven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Raven.
      • Elsmere
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Elsmere is located in Cherry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsmere
      • Hartgraves Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Hartgraves Place is located in Cherry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartgraves Place
      • Falter Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Falter Place is located in Cherry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falter Place
      • Piercy Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Piercy Place is located in Cherry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piercy Place
      • Cascade
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Cascade is located in Cherry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
  • Rock County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Raven) 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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