Nearest Communities to Draper,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Draper, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Draper:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Draper.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Draper is located in Jones County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jones County: Haakon, Jackson, Lyman, Mellette & Stanley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Draper. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Jones 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 Draper (which is Jones 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 Draper
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Jones County (where Draper resides)
- County Seat for Jones: Murdo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- Nearest Communities to Draper ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Draper.
- Murdo
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Murdo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murdo
- Murdo is located in Jones County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 459 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Murdo <4>
- Westover ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westover
- Westover is located in Jones County
- Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
- Okaton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okaton
- Okaton is located in Jones County
- Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Okaton <4>
- Van Metre
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Capa ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capa
- Capa is located in Jones County
- Jackson County
- 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 Draper ...
- Lyman County
- County Seat for Lyman: Kennebec
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- Nearest Communities to Draper ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Draper.
- Vivian
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vivian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
- Vivian is located in Lyman County
- Estimated population in 2014: 149 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vivian <4>
- Presho
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Presho have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presho
- Presho is located in Lyman County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Presho <4>
- Mellette County
- County Seat for Mellette: White River
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Mellette County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Mellette County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Mellette County
- Nearest Communities to Draper ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Draper.
- Badnation
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast) - White River
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White River have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
- White River is located in Mellette County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 586 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White River <4>
- Wood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
- Wood is located in Mellette County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wood <4>
- Stanley County
- County Seat for Stanley: Fort Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- Nearest Communities to Draper ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Draper.
- Wendte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Teton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Fort Pierre
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Pierre
- Fort Pierre is located in Stanley County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,236 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Pierre <4>
- Verendrye Hill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
- Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
- Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Draper) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Draper. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9258, Longitude: -100.5382 In this case, the coordinates for Draper 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. |
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