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Nearest Communities to Buffalo Gap,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>

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

Buffalo Gap is located in Custer County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, Niobrara (WY) & Weston (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buffalo Gap. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Buffalo Gap (which is Custer 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 Buffalo Gap

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

  • Custer County   (where Buffalo Gap resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo Gap   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo Gap.
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Fairburn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Pringle
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Argyle
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Blue Bell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • Nihart
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • State Game Lodge
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
        • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Sanator
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Custer
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Hermosa
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Spokane ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Fourmile
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Fourmile is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
          • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
        • Berne
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Berne is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Sylvan Lake Resort
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Sylvan Lake Resort is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Lake Resort
        • Danoby ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Danoby is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
        • Vestal Springs
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
        • Junction Ranger Station
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Fall River County
  • Oglala Lakota County
  • Pennington County
    • County Website:   https://pennco.org/
    • County Seat for Pennington:   Rapid City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo Gap   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo Gap.
      • Hayward ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Hayward is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
      • Frenchtown ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Frenchtown is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchtown
        • Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
      • Harney
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Harney is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
        • Estimated population in 2014: 64 people
      • Ajax
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Ajax is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajax
      • Keystone
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Clara Belle Camp ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Clara Belle Camp is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clara Belle Camp
      • Oreville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Oreville is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oreville

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Buffalo Gap) 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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