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Nearest Communities to Faith,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Faith.<1>

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

Faith is located in Meade County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Faith. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Faith (which is Meade 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 Faith

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

  • Meade County   (where Faith resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Faith   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Faith.
      • Avance ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Avance is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avance
      • Opal
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Fox Ridge
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Fox Ridge is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Ridge
      • Maurine
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Maurine is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
      • Howes
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Marcus
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Plainview
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Plainview is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
  • Dewey County
  • Perkins County
    • County Website:   https://www.perkinscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Perkins:   Bison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Faith   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Faith.
      • Usta
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Usta is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Usta
        • Estimated population in 2014: 22 people
      • Bixby
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Bixby is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixby
      • Coal Springs
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Coal Springs is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Springs
      • Chance
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Chance is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
  • Ziebach County
    • County Website:   https://ziebachcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Ziebach:   Dupree
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Faith   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Faith.
      • Red Elm ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Red Elm is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Elm
      • Allison Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Allison Crossing is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison Crossing
      • Iron Lightning
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Iron Lightning is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Lightning
        • Estimated population in 2014: 412 people
      • Chase
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Chase is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
      • Red Scaffold
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Red Scaffold is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Scaffold
        • Estimated population in 2014: 372 people
      • Dupree
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Thunder Butte
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Thunder Butte is located in Ziebach County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunder Butte
      • Glad Valley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Faith) 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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