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Nearest Communities to Thatcher,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Thatcher.<1>

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

Thatcher 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 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Thatcher. Of these communities, 7 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 Thatcher (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 Thatcher

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

  • Cherry County   (where Thatcher resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.cherry.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Cherry:   Valentine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Thatcher   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Thatcher.
      • Valentine
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Arabia ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Arabia. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arabia
        • Arabia is located in Cherry County
      • Sparks
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Crookston
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Wood Lake
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Simeon
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Simeon have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simeon
        • Simeon is located in Cherry County
      • Kennedy
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy
        • Kennedy is located in Cherry County
      • Conterra
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conterra have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conterra
        • Conterra is located in Cherry County
      • Kilgore
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kilgore have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilgore
        • Kilgore is located in Cherry County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kilgore <3>
  • Brown County
  • Keya Paha County
  • Todd County
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Thatcher   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Thatcher.
      • Littleburg
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Littleburg have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleburg
        • Littleburg is located in Todd County (SD)
      • Olsonville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsonville
        • Olsonville is located in Todd County (SD)
        • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people
      • Lakeview
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakeview have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Lakeview is located in Todd County (SD)
        • Estimated population in 2014: 799 people
      • Hidden Timber
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Timber
        • Hidden Timber is located in Todd County (SD)
        • Estimated population in 2014: 45 people
  • Tripp County

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- Thatcher) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thatcher. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8061, Longitude: -100.4662       In this case, the coordinates for Thatcher 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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.




 

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