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Nearest Communities to Avance,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 north.

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 north 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 starting from Avance.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Avance is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Meade County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Avance. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Meade County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Avance (which is Meade 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 Avance

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

  • Meade County   (where Avance resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avance.
      • Opal
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Fox Ridge
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Fox Ridge is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Ridge
      • Faith
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Marcus
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Maurine
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Maurine is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
      • Red Owl
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Red Owl is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
      • Plainview
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Plainview is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
      • Stoneville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Stoneville is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
      • Cedar Canyon
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Cedar Canyon is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Canyon
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • White Owl
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Howes
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Enning
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Fairpoint
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Fairpoint is located in Meade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
        • Union Center
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Mud Butte
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Perkins County
  • Ziebach County
    • County Website:   https://ziebachcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Ziebach:   Dupree
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avance.
      • Red Scaffold
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Red Scaffold is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Scaffold
        • Estimated population in 2014: 372 people
      • Red Elm ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Red Elm is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Elm
      • Allison Crossing
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Allison Crossing is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison Crossing
      • Iron Lightning
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Iron Lightning is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Lightning
        • Estimated population in 2014: 412 people
      • Bridger
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bridger is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger

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- Avance) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Avance, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
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