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Nearest Communities to Sidney,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Sidney is located in Cheyenne County and is the County Seat.

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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sidney. Of these communities, 20 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 Sidney (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 Sidney

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

  • Cheyenne County   (where Sidney resides)
  • Deuel County
  • Garden County
  • Kimball County
  • Morrill County
  • Logan County
    • County Website:   www.loganco.gov/
    • County Seat for Logan:   Sterling (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sidney   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sidney.
      • Peetz
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Crook
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Tobin
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tobin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobin
        • Tobin is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Marcott
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marcott have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcott
        • Marcott is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Proctor ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Proctor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
        • Proctor is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Red Lion
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Red Lion. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion
        • Red Lion is located in Logan County (CO)
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Red Lion
        • From Sidney to Red Lion
      • Buchanan ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • 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.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
        • Buchanan is located in Logan County (CO)
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Buchanan
        • From Sidney to Buchanan
      • Powell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Powell is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Griff
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Griff have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griff
        • Griff is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Selma
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Selma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
        • Selma is located in Logan County (CO)
      • Iliff
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Padroni
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jessica
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jessica have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessica
        • Jessica is located in Logan County (CO)
  • Sedgwick County
    • County Seat for Sedgwick:   Julesburg (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sidney   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sidney.
      • Dorsey
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dorsey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorsey
        • Dorsey is located in Sedgwick County (CO)
      • Sedgwick
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sedgwick have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedgwick
        • Sedgwick is located in Sedgwick County (CO)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sedgwick <5>

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- Sidney) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sidney. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1449, Longitude: -102.9780    
<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>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.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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