Nearest Communities to Petrel,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Petrel, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Petrel:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Petrel.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Petrel is located in Adams County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Adams County: Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Slope, Harding (SD) & Perkins (SD).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Petrel. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Adams 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 Petrel (which is Adams 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 Petrel
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Adams County (where Petrel resides)
- County Seat for Adams: Hettinger
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Adams County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Adams County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Adams County
- Nearest Communities to Petrel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petrel.
- North Lemmon
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Lemmon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lemmon
- North Lemmon is located in Adams County
- Haynes
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Hettinger
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hettinger
- Hettinger is located in Adams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,140 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hettinger <4>
- Bucyrus
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Hettinger County
- County Seat for Hettinger: Mott
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Hettinger County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Hettinger County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Hettinger County
- Nearest Communities to Petrel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petrel.
- Watrous
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Bentley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Burt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north) - Mott
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mott have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
- Mott is located in Hettinger County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 714 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mott <4>
- Corson County
- County Seat for Corson: McIntosh (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Corson County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Corson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Corson County
- Nearest Communities to Petrel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petrel.
- Thunder Hawk
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thunder Hawk have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunder Hawk
- Thunder Hawk is located in Corson County (SD)
- Keldron
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keldron
- Keldron is located in Corson County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Keldron <4>
- Morristown
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morristown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morristown
- Morristown is located in Corson County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morristown <4>
- Athboy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Perkins County
- County Seat for Perkins: Bison (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- Nearest Communities to Petrel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petrel.
- White Butte
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Butte
- White Butte is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 19 people
- Lemmon
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemmon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemmon
- Lemmon is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,160 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemmon <4>
- Summerville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
- Summerville is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
- Shadehill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadehill
- Shadehill is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shadehill <4>
- Lodgepole
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodgepole have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodgepole
- Lodgepole is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 35 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lodgepole <4>
- Meadow
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow
- Meadow is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Meadow <4>
- Ellingson ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Bison
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bison have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
- Bison is located in Perkins County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bison <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Petrel) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Petrel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9483, Longitude: -102.2771 In this case, the coordinates for Petrel 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. |