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Nearest Communities to Bullhead,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bullhead.<1>

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

Bullhead is located in Corson County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Corson County: Sioux (ND), Campbell, Dewey, Perkins, Walworth & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bullhead. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Corson 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 Bullhead (which is Corson 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 Bullhead

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

  • Corson County   (where Bullhead resides)
    • County Website:   https://corsoncountysd.gov/
    • County Seat for Corson:   McIntosh
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bullhead   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bullhead.
      • Miscol
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Miscol is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miscol
      • Walker
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Walker is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
      • McLaughlin
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Maple Leaf
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Maple Leaf is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Leaf
      • Little Eagle
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Black Horse
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Black Horse is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Horse
      • McIntosh
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Mahto
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jeffrey ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Jeffrey is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffrey
        • Estimated population in 2014: 535 people
      • Watauga
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Snake Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Snake Creek is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snake Creek
      • Trail City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Wakpala
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Kenel
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Kenel is located in Corson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenel
        • Estimated population in 2014: 61 people
  • Dewey County
  • Sioux County

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- Bullhead) 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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