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Nearest Communities to Boneita Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Boneita Springs is located in 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 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Boneita Springs. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Boneita Springs (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 Boneita Springs

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

  • Meade County   (where Boneita Springs resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Boneita Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Boneita Springs.
      • Haydraw
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Haydraw is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haydraw
      • Enning
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Union Center
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Elm Springs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Dalzell
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Dalzell is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalzell
      • White Owl
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Clough
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Clough is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clough
      • Hereford
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Hereford is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford
      • Red Owl
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Red Owl is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
      • Stoneville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Stoneville is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
      • Marcus
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Viewfield
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Viewfield is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewfield
        • Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Plainview
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Plainview is located in Meade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
          • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
        • Fairpoint
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Fairpoint is located in Meade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
        • Bend
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Bend is located in Meade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Howes
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Volunteer
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Volunteer is located in Meade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volunteer
  • Haakon County
  • Pennington County
    • County Website:   https://pennco.org/
    • County Seat for Pennington:   Rapid City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Boneita Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Boneita Springs.
      • Pedro
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Pedro is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
      • Creighton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Wicksville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Wicksville is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicksville
      • Wasta
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Wasta is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasta
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wasta <3>
      • Mawl Springs
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Mawl Springs is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mawl Springs
      • New Underwood
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Owanka
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Boneita Springs) 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.