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Nearest Communities to Bristol,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Bristol.<1>

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

Bristol is located in Day County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Day County: Brown, Clark, Codington, Grant, Marshall, Roberts & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bristol. Of these communities, 33 are located in counties other than Day 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 Bristol (which is Day 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 Bristol

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

  • Day County   (where Bristol resides)
    • County Website:   https://day.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Day:   Webster
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bristol   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bristol.
      • Holmquist
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Holmquist is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmquist
        • Estimated population in 2014: 154 people
      • Butler
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Butler is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
      • Andover
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Webster
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Pierpont
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Lily
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Lily is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
        • Estimated population in 2019: 4 people
      • Roslyn
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Crandall
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Crandall is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandall
      • Grenville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Waubay
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Brown County
    • County Website:   https://www.brown.sd.us/
    • County Seat for Brown:   Aberdeen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bristol   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bristol.
      • Ferney
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Groton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Verdon
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Verdon is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 5 people
      • James
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • James is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
      • Randolph
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Randolph is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
      • Huffton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Huffton is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 316 people
      • Claremont
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Putney
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Putney is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
        • Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
      • Tacoma Park
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
        • Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
      • Stratford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Plana
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Plana is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
      • Bath Corner
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Bath Corner is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
      • Bath
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bristol   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bristol.
      • Crocker
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Bradley
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Lily ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Lily is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
      • Gros ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Gros is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gros
      • Julian ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Julian is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
      • Garden City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Frisby ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Frisby is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisby
  • Codington County
  • Marshall County
  • Roberts County
  • Spink 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 from Point A (ie- Bristol) 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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