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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Riverview (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Riverview. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Riverview is located in Keya Paha County.

To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Keya Paha County: Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Rock, Gregory (SD), Todd (SD) & Tripp (SD).

Below are the counties that are near Riverview. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Riverview:

  • Keya Paha County     (The home county of Riverview)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.
    • Carns ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Carns is located in Keya Paha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carns
    • Springview
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Burton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Burton is located in Keya Paha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9 people
    • Meadville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Meadville is located in Keya Paha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville
    • Mills
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Norden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Norden is located in Keya Paha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norden
  • Boyd County
    • Naper
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brown County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.
    • Winfield ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Winfield is located in Brown County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfield
    • Long Pine
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Ainsworth
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Johnstown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Holt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.
    • Cleveland ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Cleveland is located in Holt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
    • Stuart
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Dustin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Dustin is located in Holt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
  • Rock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.
    • Bassett
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Mariaville ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Mariaville is located in Rock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariaville
    • Newport
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Tripp County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.
    • Wewela
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Millboro
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Millboro is located in Tripp County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millboro
      • Estimated population in 2014: 34 people

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Riverview, see our County-by-County Page for Riverview.

Cemeteries Near Riverview ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Riverview.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Riverview - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Riverview covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.

  • Putnam Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Leonard Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Huishizer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Rogers Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Bassett Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Willowdale Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Kirkwood Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Burton Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Simpson Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Jordan Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (34 more) ...
    • Newport Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Olive Branch Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Union Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Union Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the west of Springview.
      • The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Chub Creek Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2255883 <2>

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Riverview in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Riverview.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Riverview, with the one closest to Riverview listed first.

  • Winfield ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Winfield is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfield
  • Carns ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Carns is located in Keya Paha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carns
  • Bassett
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Springview
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Mariaville ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Mariaville is located in Rock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariaville
  • Meadville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Meadville is located in Keya Paha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville
  • Long Pine
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Newport
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Mills
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Ainsworth
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Stuart
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Johnstown
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Norden
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Norden is located in Keya Paha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norden
  • Dustin
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Dustin is located in Holt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Riverview. See our List of 1890's Communities around Riverview.

Newspapers Published in Riverview ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Riverview.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Riverview, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Riverview.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Riverview:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Riverview) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Riverview, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.