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Nearest Communities to Vroman,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Vroman.<1>

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

Vroman is located in Lincoln County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Hayes, Keith, Logan, McPherson & Perkins.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vroman. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Vroman (which is Lincoln 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 Vroman

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Vroman resides)
    • County Website:   https://lincolncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   North Platte
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Vroman   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Vroman.
      • Brady
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Maxwell
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Keith
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Keith is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keith
      • Bignell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Bignell is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bignell
      • Beck
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Beck is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck
      • Sioux View Park
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Sioux View Park is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux View Park
      • North Platte
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Wellfleet
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Key Estates
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Key Estates is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Estates
      • Mobile Manor
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Mobile Manor is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile Manor
      • Village Square
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Village Square is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Square
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://custercountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Vroman   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Vroman.
      • Etna
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Etna is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Lodi
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lodi is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
      • Callaway
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Oconto
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Finchville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Finchville is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finchville
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://www.dawsoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lexington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Vroman   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Vroman.
      • Gothenburg
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow Island
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Willow Island is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island
      • Cozad
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Farnam
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Buffalo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Buffalo is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
      • Darr
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Darr is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darr
      • Lexington
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Frontier County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Vroman) 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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