Nearest Communities to Bear Creek,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bear Creek, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bear Creek:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Bear Creek.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bear Creek is located in Dewey County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dewey County: Corson, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Walworth & Ziebach.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bear Creek. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Dewey 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 Bear Creek (which is Dewey 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 Bear Creek
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dewey County (where Bear Creek resides)
- County Seat for Dewey: Timber Lake
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bear Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek.
- Lantry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Eagle Butte
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- North Eagle Butte
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- North Eagle Butte is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eagle Butte
- Population from the 2010 Census: 1,954 people
- Green Grass
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Green Grass is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Grass
- Population from the 2010 Census: 35 people
- Parade
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Isabel
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Thatcher
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Thatcher is located in Dewey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thatcher
- Firesteel
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Whitehorse
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Meade County
- Ziebach County
- County Website: https://ziebachcounty.org/
- County Seat for Ziebach: Dupree
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bear Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek.
- Dupree
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Chase
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Chase is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
- Thunder Butte
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Thunder Butte is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunder Butte
- Red Elm ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Red Elm is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Elm
- Iron Lightning
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Iron Lightning is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Lightning
- Estimated population in 2014: 412 people
- Allison Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Allison Crossing is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison Crossing
- Glad Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Red Scaffold
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Red Scaffold is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Scaffold
- Estimated population in 2014: 372 people
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bear Creek) 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. |
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