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Nearest Communities to Bunker,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bunker.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Bunker is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Stanley County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stanley County: Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Sully & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bunker. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Stanley County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Bunker (which is Stanley 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 Bunker

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

  • Stanley County   (where Bunker resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.stanleycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Stanley:   Fort Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bunker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bunker.
      • Hayes
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Sansarc
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sansarc is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sansarc
      • Wendte
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Wendte is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendte
      • Lacy
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Lacy is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
        • Estimated population in 2014: 66 people
      • Teton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Teton is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 59 people
  • Haakon County
    • County Website:   https://haakon.southdakotadirectors.com/
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bunker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bunker.
      • Midland
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Ottumwa
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Ottumwa is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottumwa
      • Nowlin
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Nowlin is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nowlin
      • Moenville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Moenville is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moenville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 18 people
      • Lucerne
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Lucerne is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Kirley
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Kirley is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirley
      • Powell
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Powell is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • West Fork
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • West Fork is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fork
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
      • Elbon
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Elbon is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
      • Billsburg
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Billsburg is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
  • Jackson County
  • Jones County
    • County Seat for Jones:   Murdo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bunker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bunker.
      • Capa ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Capa is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capa
      • Van Metre
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Van Metre is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Metre
      • Okaton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bunker) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bunker, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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