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Nearest Communities to Eagle Butte,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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 west 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 Eagle Butte.<1>

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

Eagle Butte is primarily located in Dewey County. A portion of Eagle Butte extends into Ziebach County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dewey County: Corson, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Walworth & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Eagle Butte. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Dewey 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 Eagle Butte (which is Dewey 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 Eagle Butte

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

  • Dewey County   (where Eagle Butte resides)
    • County Seat for Dewey:   Timber Lake
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Eagle Butte   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Eagle Butte.
      • North Eagle Butte
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • North Eagle Butte is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eagle Butte
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 1,954 people
      • Parade
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Lantry
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Green Grass
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Green Grass is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Grass
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 35 people
      • Bear Creek
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Bear Creek is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
      • Thatcher
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Thatcher is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thatcher
      • Ridgeview
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Whitehorse
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Isabel
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Yellowhorse Ford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Yellowhorse Ford is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowhorse Ford
      • Firesteel
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • La Plant
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • La Plant is located in Dewey County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Plant
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 171 people
      • Timber Lake
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Stanley County
  • Ziebach County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Eagle Butte) 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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