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Nearest Communities to Belle Fourche,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast 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 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.<1>

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

Belle Fourche is located in Butte County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Butte County: Carter (MT), Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins & Crook (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 62 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Belle Fourche. Of these communities, 52 are located in counties other than Butte 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 Belle Fourche (which is Butte 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 Belle Fourche

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

  • Butte County   (where Belle Fourche resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.buttesd.org/
    • County Seat for Butte:   Belle Fourche
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Belle Fourche   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Belle Fourche.
      • Jolly
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Jolly is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
      • Jolly Dump
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Jolly Dump is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly Dump
      • Fruitdale
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Snoma ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Snoma is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snoma
      • Arpan
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Arpan is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arpan
      • Nisland
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Newell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Vale
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Empire
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Empire is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
      • Castle Rock
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Lawrence County
    • County Website:   https://www.lawrence.sd.us/
    • County Seat for Lawrence:   Deadwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Belle Fourche   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Belle Fourche.
      • Saint Onge
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • North Spearfish
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • North Spearfish is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spearfish
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,221 people
      • Spearfish
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Whitewood
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Carbonate ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Maurice
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Maitland
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Maitland is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland
      • Victoria
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Victoria is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
      • Centennial City ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Centennial City is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial City
      • Crook City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Elizabethtown ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Elizabethtown is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabethtown
      • Lancaster City ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Lancaster City is located in Lawrence County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lancaster City
        • Estimated population in 2014: 419 people
      • Continue List   (30 more) ...
        • Beaver Crossing
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Beaver Crossing is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Crossing
        • Blacktail
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Blacktail is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacktail
        • Central City
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Deadwood
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Gayville
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Gayville is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gayville
        • Preston
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Ragged Top ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Ragged Top is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragged Top
          • Estimated population in 2014: 73 people
        • Terraville
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Terraville is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terraville
        • Dacy ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Dacy is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dacy
        • Kirk
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Kirk is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirk
        • Lead
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Pluma
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Pluma is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pluma
        • Savoy
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Trojan
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Tinton ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Carterville ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Carterville is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carterville
        • Cartesville ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Cartesville is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartesville
        • Carthage ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Carthage is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carthage
        • Terry
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Terry is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry
        • Elmore
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Elmore is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmore
        • Flatiron ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Flatiron is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatiron
          • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
        • Cheyenne Crossing
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Cheyenne Crossing is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne Crossing
        • Galena
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Virginia ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Virginia is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia
        • Englewood
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Englewood is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
          • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
        • Woodville
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Brownsville ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Brownsville is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
        • Hanna
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Hanna is located in Lawrence County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
        • Roubaix
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Dumont
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Meade County
  • Crook County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Belle Fourche) 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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