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Nearest Communities to Hat Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Hat Creek is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Niobrara County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Niobrara County: Sioux (NE), Custer (SD), Fall River (SD), Converse, Goshen, Platte & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hat Creek. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Niobrara County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Hat Creek (which is Niobrara 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 Hat Creek

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

  • Niobrara County   (where Hat Creek resides)
    • County Seat for Niobrara:   Lusk
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hat Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hat Creek.
      • Lusk
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
        • Lusk is located in Niobrara County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,474 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lusk <4>
      • Whitman
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitman have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitman
        • Whitman is located in Niobrara County
      • Kirtley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtley
        • Kirtley is located in Niobrara County
      • Lance Creek
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Node
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Node have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Node
        • Node is located in Niobrara County
      • Manville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • West Lance Creek ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Lance Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lance Creek
        • West Lance Creek is located in Niobrara County
      • Redbird
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Redbird have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbird
        • Redbird is located in Niobrara County
      • Van Tassell
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Keeline
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeline
        • Keeline is located in Niobrara County
  • Converse County
  • Sioux County
    • County Website:   www.co.sioux.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Harrison (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hat Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hat Creek.
      • Story
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Story have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
        • Story is located in Sioux County (NE)
      • Harrison
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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- Hat Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hat Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9394, Longitude: -104.3697       In this case, the coordinates for Hat Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hat Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.




 

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