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Nearest Communities to Bison,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.<1>

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

Bison is located in Perkins County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Perkins County: Adams (ND), Butte, Corson, Harding, Meade & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bison. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Perkins 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 Bison (which is Perkins 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 Bison

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

  • Perkins County   (where Bison resides)
    • County Seat for Perkins:   Bison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bison.
      • Chance
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chance have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
        • Chance is located in Perkins County
      • Meadow
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Date
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Date have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Date
        • Date is located in Perkins County
      • Prairie City
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie City
        • Prairie City is located in Perkins County
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 23 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie City <4>
      • Strool
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strool have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strool
        • Strool is located in Perkins County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
      • Coal Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coal Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Springs
        • Coal Springs is located in Perkins County
      • Shadehill
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lodgepole
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodgepole have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodgepole
        • Lodgepole is located in Perkins County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 35 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lodgepole <4>
      • Summerville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
        • Summerville is located in Perkins County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Sorum
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sorum have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorum
          • Sorum is located in Perkins County
        • Usta
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Usta have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Usta
          • Usta is located in Perkins County
          • Estimated population in 2014: 22 people
        • Bixby
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bixby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixby
          • Bixby is located in Perkins County
        • Imogene
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Imogene have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imogene
          • Imogene is located in Perkins County
        • White Butte
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Butte
          • White Butte is located in Perkins County
          • Estimated population in 2014: 19 people
        • Ellingson ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellingson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellingson
          • Ellingson is located in Perkins County
  • Corson County
  • Harding County
  • Adams 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- Bison) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bison. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5217, Longitude: -102.4674       In this case, the coordinates for Bison 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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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