Nearest Communities to Irwin,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Irwin, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Irwin:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Irwin.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Irwin is located in Cherry County.
The following 11 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cherry County: Blaine, Brown, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha, Sheridan, Thomas, Bennett (SD), Oglala Lakota (SD), Todd (SD) & Tripp (SD).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Irwin. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Cherry 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 Irwin (which is Cherry 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 Irwin
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Cherry County (where Irwin resides)
- County Website: www.co.cherry.ne.us/
- County Seat for Cherry: Valentine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- Nearest Communities to Irwin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Irwin.
- Leat
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east) - Bayonne
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south) - Merriman
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merriman
- Merriman is located in Cherry County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Merriman <4>
- Eli
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Sheridan County
- County Seat for Sheridan: Rushville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- Nearest Communities to Irwin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Irwin.
- Gordon
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
- Gordon is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,486 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gordon <4>
- Albany ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Clinton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Rushville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rushville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville
- Rushville is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 871 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rushville <4>
- Bennett County
- County Seat for Bennett: Martin (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- Nearest Communities to Irwin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Irwin.
- Swett ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swett
- Swett is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 283 people
- Martin
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
- Martin is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,058 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Martin <4>
- Allen
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
- Allen is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Allen <4>
- Plenty Bears
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plenty Bears have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plenty Bears
- Plenty Bears is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 109 people
- Black Eyes
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Eyes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eyes
- Black Eyes is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Bad Wound
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Tuthill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuthill
- Tuthill is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tuthill <4>
- Oglala Lakota County
- County Website: oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- Nearest Communities to Irwin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Irwin.
- Batesland
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Batesland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batesland
- Batesland is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Batesland <4>
- Wakpamani
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Denby
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denby
- Denby is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
- Wounded Knee
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wounded Knee
- Wounded Knee is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wounded Knee <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Irwin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Irwin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8772, Longitude: -101.9549 In this case, the coordinates for Irwin 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. |