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Nearest Communities to Alpena,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.<1>

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

Alpena is located in Jerauld County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jerauld County: Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Davison, Hand & Sanborn.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alpena. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Jerauld 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 Alpena (which is Jerauld 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 Alpena

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

  • Jerauld County   (where Alpena resides)
  • Aurora County
  • Beadle County
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alpena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alpena.
      • Virgil
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • James Valley Junction
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Huron
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Morningside
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Wolsey
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Cavour
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Broadland
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Sheffield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Riverside Colony
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Pearl Creek Colony
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Creek Colony
        • Wessington
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Yale
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Huron Colony
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
          • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
        • Bonilla
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
        • Hitchcock
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Davison County
  • Hand County
  • Kingsbury County
  • Sanborn County
    • County Seat for Sanborn:   Woonsocket
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alpena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alpena.
      • Woonsocket
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Cuthbert
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Cuthbert is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
      • Forestburg
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Forestburg is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestburg
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 73 people
      • Ruskin Park
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Ruskin Park is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin Park
      • Letcher
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Artesian
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Alpena) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.