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Nearest Communities to Dewey,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

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

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

Dewey is located in Custer County.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dewey. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Dewey (which is Custer 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 Dewey

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

  • Custer County   (where Dewey resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dewey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dewey.
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Argyle
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Danoby ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Danoby is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
      • Pringle
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Fourmile
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Nihart
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Sanator
        (24 miles [38.6 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 east)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Custer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Junction Ranger Station
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Vestal Springs
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
      • Berne
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Berne is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
      • Blue Bell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
  • Fall River County
  • Pennington County
  • Niobrara County
  • Weston County
    • County Website:   https://www.westongov.com/
    • County Seat for Weston:   Newcastle (WY)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dewey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dewey.
      • Dakoming
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Dakoming is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakoming
      • Clifton ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Clifton is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
      • Morrisey
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Morrisey is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisey
      • Spencer ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Hill View Heights
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Hill View Heights is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill View Heights
      • Newcastle
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Cambria ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Pedro
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Pedro is located in Weston County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dewey) 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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