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Nearest Communities to Burdock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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 from Burdock.<1>

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


Burdock is located in Fall River County.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Burdock. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Fall River 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 Burdock (which is Fall River 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 Burdock

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

  • Fall River County   (where Burdock resides)
    • County Website:   https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Fall River:   Hot Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burdock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burdock.
      • Marietta
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Marietta is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
      • Dudley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
      • Edgemont
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Dennis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Dennis is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
      • Minnekahta
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Minnekahta is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta
      • Igloo
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Igloo is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igloo
      • Provo
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Erskine
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Erskine is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erskine
      • Rocky Ford
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Cascade Springs
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
      • Hot Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Heppner
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Heppner is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
        • Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
      • Rumford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Rumford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burdock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burdock.
      • Dewey
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Dewey is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Argyle
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Pringle
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Nihart
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Danoby ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Danoby is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
      • Fourmile
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Sanator
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Custer
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Berne
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Berne is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
      • Junction Ranger Station
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Vestal Springs
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
  • Niobrara County
  • Weston County
    • County Website:   https://www.westongov.com/
    • County Seat for Weston:   Newcastle (WY)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burdock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burdock.
      • Dakoming
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Dakoming is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakoming
      • Clifton ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Clifton is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
      • Morrisey
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Morrisey is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisey
      • Spencer ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Spencer is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Hill View Heights
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Hill View Heights is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill View Heights
      • Newcastle
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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- Burdock) 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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