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Nearest Communities to Shawnee,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Shawnee.<1>

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

Shawnee is located in Converse County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Converse County: Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Johnson, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shawnee. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Converse 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 Shawnee (which is Converse 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 Shawnee

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

  • Converse County   (where Shawnee resides)
    • County Website:   www.conversecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Converse:   Douglas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shawnee   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shawnee.
      • Lost Springs
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • XH Crossing
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for XH Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for XH Crossing
        • XH Crossing is located in Converse County
      • Deadmans Corner
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deadmans Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadmans Corner
        • Deadmans Corner is located in Converse County
      • Ammon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ammon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
        • Ammon is located in Converse County
      • Bona
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bona have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
        • Bona is located in Converse County
      • McKinley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McKinley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinley
        • McKinley is located in Converse County
      • Orin Junction
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
        • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
      • Orin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Orin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
        • Orin is located in Converse County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Orin
        • From Shawnee to Orin
      • Foster
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foster have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
        • Foster is located in Converse County
      • Irvine
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irvine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvine
        • Irvine is located in Converse County
      • Douglas
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Morton
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
        • Morton is located in Converse County
      • Orpha
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orpha have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orpha
        • Orpha is located in Converse County
      • Esterbrook
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Niobrara County
  • Platte County
    • County Seat for Platte:   Wheatland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shawnee   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shawnee.
      • Glendo
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Meadowdale
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadowdale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale
        • Meadowdale is located in Platte County
      • Cassa
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cassa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassa
        • Cassa is located in Platte County
      • Wendover ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wendover. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
        • Wendover is located in Platte County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wendover
        • From Shawnee to Wendover

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- Shawnee) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shawnee. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7475, Longitude: -105.0094    
<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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