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Nearest Communities to Hoven,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Hoven.<1>

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

Hoven is located in Potter County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Potter County: Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Hyde, Sully & Walworth.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hoven. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Potter 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 Hoven (which is Potter 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 Hoven

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

  • Potter County   (where Hoven resides)
    • County Seat for Potter:   Gettysburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoven.
      • Tolstoy
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Lebanon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lebanon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lebanon
        • Lebanon is located in Potter County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lebanon <3>
      • Gettysburg
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Gorman
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gorman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorman
        • Gorman is located in Potter County
      • Forest City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest City
        • Forest City is located in Potter County
  • Edmunds County
    • County Seat for Edmunds:   Ipswich
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoven.
      • Bowdle
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Gretna
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gretna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
        • Gretna is located in Edmunds County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
      • Loyalton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Loyalton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyalton
        • Loyalton is located in Edmunds County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Loyalton
        • From Hoven to Loyalton
      • Roscoe
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roscoe have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe
        • Roscoe is located in Edmunds County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 285 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roscoe <3>
      • Hosmer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Faulk County
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoven.
      • Onaka
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Seneca
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Burkmere
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burkmere have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkmere
        • Burkmere is located in Faulk County
      • Norbeck
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norbeck have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norbeck
        • Norbeck is located in Faulk County
      • Millard
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Millard. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard
        • Millard is located in Faulk County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Millard
        • From Hoven to Millard
  • McPherson County
  • Walworth County
    • County Seat for Walworth:   Selby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hoven   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hoven.
      • Lowry
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowry
        • Lowry is located in Walworth County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
      • Akaska
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Java
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Selby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Selby have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selby
        • Selby is located in Walworth County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 612 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Selby <3>
      • Sitka
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sitka have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sitka
        • Sitka is located in Walworth County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 2,473 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- Hoven) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hoven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.2431, Longitude: -99.7772    
<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.
<4>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.
<5>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.




 

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