Nearest Communities to Cactus Flat,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cactus Flat, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cactus Flat:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Cactus Flat.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: Bennett, Haakon, Jones, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington & Todd.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cactus Flat. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Jackson 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 Cactus Flat (which is Jackson 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 Cactus Flat
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Jackson County (where Cactus Flat resides)
- County Seat for Jackson: Kadoka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Jackson County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Jackson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Jackson County
- Nearest Communities to Cactus Flat ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus Flat.
- Cottonwood
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
- Interior
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interior
- Interior is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Interior <4>
- Weta
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast) - Sevenmile Corner
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
- Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
- Philip Junction
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Philip Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
- Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
- Kadoka Junction
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kadoka Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
- Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
- Kadoka
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka
- Kadoka is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 709 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kadoka <4>
- Potato Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Creek
- Potato Creek is located in Jackson County
- Wanblee
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wanblee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wanblee
- Wanblee is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2010 Census: 725 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wanblee <4>
- Hisle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Haakon County
- County Seat for Haakon: Philip
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- Nearest Communities to Cactus Flat ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus Flat.
- Philip
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip
- Philip is located in Haakon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 753 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Philip <4>
- Grindstone
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grindstone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
- Grindstone is located in Haakon County
- Powell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Elevenmile Corner
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
- Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
- Hilland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Pennington County
- County Website: www.co.pennington.sd.us/
- County Seat for Pennington: Rapid City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- Nearest Communities to Cactus Flat ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus Flat.
- Quinn
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinn
- Quinn is located in Pennington County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinn <4>
- Conata
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Wall
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall
- Wall is located in Pennington County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 885 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wall <4>
- Imlay
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cactus Flat) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cactus Flat. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8355, Longitude: -101.8943 In this case, the coordinates for Cactus Flat have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |