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Nearest Communities to Erskine,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.<1>

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


Erskine is located in Fall River County.

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

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

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

  • Fall River County   (where Erskine resides)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Erskine   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Erskine.
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Argyle
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Pringle
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Buffalo Gap
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Nihart
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Sanator
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Blue Bell
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • Fourmile
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Custer
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Fairburn
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Dewey
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Danoby ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Danoby is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
        • State Game Lodge
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
          • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
        • Berne
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Berne is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Sylvan Lake Resort
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Sylvan Lake Resort is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Lake Resort
        • Vestal Springs
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
        • Junction Ranger Station
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Spokane ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Pennington County
  • Weston 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Erskine) 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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