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Nearest Communities to Walworth,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Walworth.<1>

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

Walworth is located in Custer County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Buffalo, Dawson, Garfield, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Sherman & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Walworth. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Walworth (which is Custer 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 Walworth

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

  • Custer County   (where Walworth resides)
    • County Website:   https://custercountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Broken Bow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Walworth   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Walworth.
      • Gates
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Gates is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
      • Cummings Park ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Cummings Park was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Park
      • Lillian
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Lillian is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillian
      • West Union ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • West Union was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
      • Round Valley
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Round Valley is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
      • Milburn
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Milburn is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburn
      • New Helena
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • New Helena is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Helena
      • Sargent
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Elton ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Elton was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
      • Weissert
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Merna
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Merna is also located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merna
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 360 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Merna <3>
      • Dale ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Dale was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Anselmo
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Broken Bow
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • Broken Bow is also located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Bow
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,437 people
          • Broken Bow has also been known as:
          • Brokenbow
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Broken Bow <3>
        • Wescott
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Wescott is also located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
        • Comstock
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Westerville
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Berwyn
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Ansley
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Ansley is also located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansley
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 418 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ansley <3>
        • Pleasant Hill
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Pleasant Hill is also located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
        • Callaway
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Blaine County
  • Garfield County
  • Loup County
    • County Website:   https://loupcounty.nebraska.gov/
    • County Seat for Loup:   Taylor
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Walworth   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Walworth.
      • Almeria
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Almeria is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almeria
      • Taylor
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Kent ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Kent was located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
      • Aggies Acres
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Aggies Acres is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aggies Acres
      • Mikes Meadows
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Mikes Meadows is located in Loup County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mikes Meadows
  • Valley 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Walworth) 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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