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Nearest Communities to Swan Lake,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Swan Lake.<1>

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

Swan Lake is located in Holt County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Holt County: Antelope, Boyd, Knox, Loup, Rock & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Swan Lake. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Holt 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 Swan Lake (which is Holt 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 Swan Lake

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

  • Holt County   (where Swan Lake resides)
    • County Website:   https://holtcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Holt:   O'Neill
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swan Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swan Lake.
      • Amelia
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Inez ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Inez is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez
      • Chambers
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Emmet
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Atkinson
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • O'Neill
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • O'Neill is located in Holt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Neill
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,537 people
        • O'Neill has also been known as:
        • O'Neill City
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for O'Neill <3>
      • Inman
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Stuart
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Garfield County
    • County Website:   https://garfieldcounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Garfield:   Burwell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swan Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swan Lake.
      • Gables ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Gables is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables
      • Deverre
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Deverre is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deverre
      • Burwell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
  • Loup County
  • Rock County
  • Wheeler County
    • County Website:   https://wheelercounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Bartlett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swan Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swan Lake.
      • Wheeler ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Wheeler is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
      • Cumminsville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Cumminsville is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumminsville
      • Headquarters ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Headquarters is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Headquarters
      • Stokes Ranch
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Stokes Ranch is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes Ranch

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Swan Lake) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.