Nearest Communities to Cottonwood,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cottonwood, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cottonwood:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Cottonwood 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 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cottonwood. Of these communities, 16 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 Cottonwood (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 Cottonwood
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Jackson County (where Cottonwood resides)
- County Seat for Jackson: Kadoka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Cactus Flat
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
- Philip Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
- Sevenmile Corner
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
- Weta
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Weta is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weta
- Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
- Interior
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Kadoka Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
- Kadoka
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wanblee
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Potato Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Potato Creek is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Creek
- Haakon County
- County Website: https://haakon.southdakotadirectors.com/
- County Seat for Haakon: Philip
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Grindstone
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Grindstone is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
- Philip
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Elevenmile Corner
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
- Powell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Powell is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
- Hilland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Hilland is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilland
- Elbon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Elbon is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
- Dowling ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Dowling is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
- Lucerne
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lucerne is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
- Nowlin
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Nowlin is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nowlin
- Hartley
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Hartley is located in Haakon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
- Estimated population in 2014: 129 people
- Pennington County
- County Website: https://pennco.org/
- County Seat for Pennington: Rapid City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Quinn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Wall
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Conata
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Conata is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conata
- Creighton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wasta
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Imlay
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Imlay is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
- Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
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- Cottonwood) 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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