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Nearest Communities to Eakin,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from Eakin.<1>

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

Eakin is located in Sully County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sully County: Dewey, Hughes, Hyde, Potter & Stanley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Eakin. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Sully 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 Eakin (which is Sully 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 Eakin

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

  • Sully County   (where Eakin resides)
    • County Website:   www.sullycounty.net/
    • County Seat for Sully:   Onida
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Eakin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Eakin.
      • Onida
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Agar
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Agar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agar
        • Agar is located in Sully County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Agar <3>
      • Okobojo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Okobojo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okobojo
        • Okobojo is located in Sully County
  • Hughes County
    • County Seat for Hughes:   Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Eakin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Eakin.
      • Blunt
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Canning
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canning have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
        • Canning is located in Hughes County
      • Harrold
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrold have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrold
        • Harrold is located in Hughes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrold <3>
      • Gray Goose
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray Goose have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
        • Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
      • Alto
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
        • Alto is located in Hughes County
      • Rousseau
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rousseau have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau
        • Rousseau is located in Hughes County
      • Pierre
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierre have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierre
        • Pierre is located in Hughes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,708 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pierre <3>
      • De Grey
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Grey have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey
        • De Grey is located in Hughes County
      • Oahe
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oahe have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
        • Oahe is located in Hughes County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
  • Hyde County
  • Potter County
    • County Seat for Potter:   Gettysburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Eakin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Eakin.
      • Gorman
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gorman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorman
        • Gorman is located in Potter County
      • Gettysburg
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Forest City
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest City
        • Forest City is located in Potter County
  • Stanley County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Eakin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Eakin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6155, Longitude: -100.0332       In this case, the coordinates for Eakin 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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.




 

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