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Nearest Communities to Burkmere,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.

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

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

Burkmere is located in Faulk County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Faulk County: Brown, Edmunds, Hand, Hyde, Potter & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Burkmere. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Faulk 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 Burkmere (which is Faulk 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 Burkmere

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

  • Faulk County   (where Burkmere resides)
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burkmere   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burkmere.
      • Millard
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Millard is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard
      • Faulkton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Seneca
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Norbeck
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Norbeck is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norbeck
      • Wecota
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Onaka
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Orient
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Miranda
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Miranda is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miranda
        • Estimated population in 2014: 122 people
      • Cresbard
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Devoe
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Devoe is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 23 people
      • Rockham
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Chelsea
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Chelsea is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
      • Zell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Zell is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zell
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
  • Edmunds County
    • County Website:   https://edmunds.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Edmunds:   Ipswich
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burkmere   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burkmere.
      • Loyalton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Loyalton is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyalton
      • Powell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Powell is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Roscoe
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Beebe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Beebe is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
      • Gretna
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Gretna is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
        • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
      • Ipswich
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hand County
  • Potter 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Burkmere) 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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