Nearest Communities to Empire,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Empire, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Empire:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.
Please note 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.
Empire is located in Butte County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Butte County: Carter (MT), Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins & Crook (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Empire. Of these communities, 44 are located in counties other than Butte 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 Empire (which is Butte 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 Empire
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Butte County (where Empire resides)
- County Website: https://www.buttesd.org/
- County Seat for Butte: Belle Fourche
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Empire ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Empire.
- Vale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Newell
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Nisland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Fruitdale
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Snoma ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Snoma is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snoma
- Arpan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Arpan is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arpan
- Castle Rock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Castle Rock is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
- Jolly
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Jolly is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
- Belle Fourche
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Jolly Dump
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Jolly Dump is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly Dump
- Lawrence County
- County Website: https://www.lawrence.sd.us/
- County Seat for Lawrence: Deadwood
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Empire ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Empire.
- Whitewood
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Centennial City ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Centennial City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial City
- Crook City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Crook City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crook City
- Saint Onge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Elizabethtown ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Elizabethtown is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabethtown
- Galena
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Galena is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
- Virginia ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Virginia is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia
- Deadwood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Channing ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Channing is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Channing
- Blacktail
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Blacktail is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacktail
- Central City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Central City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 155 people
- Gayville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Gayville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gayville
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- Lancaster City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lancaster City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lancaster City
- Estimated population in 2014: 419 people
- Pluma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pluma is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pluma
- Spearfish
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Carterville ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Carterville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carterville
- Cartesville ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Cartesville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartesville
- Lead
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Maitland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Maitland is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland
- Terraville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Terraville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terraville
- Novak
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Novak is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novak
- Tomahawk
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Tomahawk is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomahawk
- Estimated population in 2014: 36 people
- Benchmark
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Benchmark is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benchmark
- Brownsville ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Brownsville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
- Flatiron ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Flatiron is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatiron
- Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
- Greenwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Greenwood is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Greenwood has also been known as:
- Laflin
- Roubaix
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Roubaix is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roubaix
- Estimated population in 2013: 14 people
- North Spearfish
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- North Spearfish is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spearfish
- Population from the 2010 Census: 2,221 people
- Nemo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Carbonate ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Carbonate is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbonate
- Kirk
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Kirk is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirk
- Meade County
- County Website: https://www.meadecounty.org/
- County Seat for Meade: Sturgis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Empire ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Empire.
- Bear Butte
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Bear Butte is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Butte
- Volunteer
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Volunteer is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volunteer
- Sturgis
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Tilford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Tilford is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilford
- Clough
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Clough is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clough
- Sulphur
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Sulphur is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur
- Piedmont
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Hereford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hereford is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford
- Fairpoint
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Fairpoint is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
- Carwye ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Carwye is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carwye
- Goiens ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Goiens is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goiens
- Summerset
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Bend
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bend is located in Meade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Empire) 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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