The Generate Near Table tool generates a table of nearest features, based on input features and near features, and provides a distance and rank for each near feature. The input features can be points, multi-points, lines, or polygons.

This task sheet will demonstrate how to use this tool by creating a table of the cities in Iowa and their 5 nearest neighbors. In order to do this, a point shapefile of Iowa cities will be used as both the input features and the near features.