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Nearest Communities to Esmond,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Esmond is located in Kingsbury County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kingsbury County: Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Hamlin, Lake, Miner & Sanborn.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Esmond. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Kingsbury 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 Esmond (which is Kingsbury 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 Esmond

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

  • Kingsbury County   (where Esmond resides)
    • County Website:   https://kingsburycountysd.org/
    • County Seat for Kingsbury:   De Smet
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Esmond   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Esmond.
      • Manchester
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Manchester is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
      • Fairview ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Fairview is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Iroquois
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • De Smet
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Osceola
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Osceola is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
        • Estimated population in 2014: 90 people
      • Bancroft
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Bancroft is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
      • Lake Preston
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Oldham
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Erwin
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Hetland
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Beadle County
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Esmond   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Esmond.
      • Pearl Creek Colony
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Creek Colony
      • Cavour
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Yale
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Sheffield
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Morningside
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Huron
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Riverside Colony
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • James Valley Junction
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Huron Colony
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Esmond   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Esmond.
      • Melham
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Melham is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melham
      • Pitrodie ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Pitrodie is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
        • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
      • Success ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Success is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6,741 people
      • Carpenter
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Willow Lake
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Hamlin County
  • Hanson County
  • Jerauld County
  • Lake County
  • Miner County
    • County Website:   https://www.minercountysd.org/
    • County Seat for Miner:   Howard
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Esmond   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Esmond.
      • Carthage
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cloverleaf Colony
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Cloverleaf Colony is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverleaf Colony
      • Argonne
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Argonne is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argonne
      • Fedora
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Roswell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Roswell is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Vilas
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Vilas is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vilas
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
      • Howard
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Canova
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sanborn County
    • County Seat for Sanborn:   Woonsocket
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Esmond   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Esmond.
      • Artesian
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Forestburg
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Forestburg is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestburg
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 73 people
      • Ruskin Park
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Ruskin Park is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin Park
      • Woonsocket
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Cuthbert
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Cuthbert is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
  • Spink County

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 from Point A (ie- Esmond) 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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