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Nearest Communities to Wilsonville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Please note 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.

Wilsonville is located in Furnas County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Furnas County: Decatur (KS), Norton (KS), Frontier, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps & Red Willow.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wilsonville. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Furnas 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 Wilsonville (which is Furnas 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 Wilsonville

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

  • Furnas County   (where Wilsonville resides)
    • County Website:   https://furnascounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Furnas:   Beaver City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilsonville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilsonville.
      • Hendley
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Deerfield Corner
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Deerfield Corner is located in Furnas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield Corner
      • Cambridge
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Beaver City
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Holbrook
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Arapahoe
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Precept
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Precept is located in Furnas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Precept
      • Edison
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hollinger
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Hollinger is located in Furnas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollinger
      • Oxford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Frontier County
  • Harlan County
  • Red Willow County
    • County Website:   https://redwillowcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Red Willow:   McCook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilsonville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilsonville.
      • Shippee
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Shippee is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shippee
      • Lebanon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Bartley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Danbury
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Indianola
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Marion
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Marion is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
      • Red Willow
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Red Willow is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Willow
      • McCook
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • McCook is located in Red Willow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCook
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,499 people
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  • Decatur County
    • County Website:   https://www.dccoks.org/
    • County Seat for Decatur:   Oberlin (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilsonville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilsonville.
      • Lyle
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Lyle is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyle
      • Norcatur
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Norcatur is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norcatur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
      • Cedar Bluffs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Cedar Bluffs is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluffs
      • Kanona
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Kanona is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanona
      • Oberlin
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Oberlin is located in Decatur County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oberlin
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,669 people
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  • Norton County
    • County Website:   https://www.nortoncountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Norton:   Norton (KS)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wilsonville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wilsonville.
      • Devizes
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Devizes is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devizes
      • Reager
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Reager is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reager
      • Rockwell City ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Rockwell City is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwell City
      • Oronoque
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Oronoque is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oronoque
      • Norton
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Norton is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,709 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Norton <3>
      • Dellvale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Dellvale is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellvale
      • Almena
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Almena is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almena
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 376 people
      • Calvert
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Calvert is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert
      • Clayton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Clayton is located in Norton County (KS)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people

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 from Point A (ie- Wilsonville) 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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