Nearest Communities to Whitman,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Whitman, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Whitman:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Whitman.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Whitman is located in 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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Whitman. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Niobrara 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 Whitman (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 Whitman
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Niobrara County (where Whitman resides)
- County Seat for Niobrara: Lusk
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- Nearest Communities to Whitman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Whitman.
- Kirtley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtley
- Kirtley is located in Niobrara County
- Hat Creek ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Node
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Van Tassell
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Tassell
- Van Tassell is located in Niobrara County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Van Tassell <4>
- Lusk
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- 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>
- Redbird
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Manville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manville
- Manville is located in Niobrara County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 83 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manville <4>
- Lance Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lance Creek
- Lance Creek is located in Niobrara County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lance Creek <4>
- Sioux County
- County Website: www.co.sioux.ne.us/
- County Seat for Sioux: Harrison (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- Nearest Communities to Whitman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Whitman.
- Story
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east) - Harrison
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Harrison is located in Sioux County (NE)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 230 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrison <4>
- Montrose ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Five Points
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Five Points have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Five Points is located in Sioux County (NE)
- Andrews
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast) - Joder
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Fall River County
- County Seat for Fall River: Hot Springs (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- Nearest Communities to Whitman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Whitman.
- Ardmore ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
- Ardmore is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Igloo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Provo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provo
- Provo is located in Fall River County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 32 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Provo <4>
- Rumford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Dennis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
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 from Point A (ie- Whitman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whitman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8877, Longitude: -104.1149 In this case, the coordinates for Whitman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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. |