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Nearest Communities to Florence,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Florence.<1>

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

Florence is located in Codington County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Codington County: Clark, Day, Deuel, Grant & Hamlin.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Florence. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Codington 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 Florence (which is Codington 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 Florence

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

  • Codington County   (where Florence resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.codington.org/
    • County Seat for Codington:   Watertown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Wallace
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • North Shore
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • North Shore is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shore
      • Rauville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Rauville is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 292 people
      • Kampeska
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Kampeska is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kampeska
        • Estimated population in 2014: 331 people
      • Henry
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Henry is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 264 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Henry <3>
      • Watertown
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Grover
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Grover is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover
        • Estimated population in 2014: 171 people
      • Waverly
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Foley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Foley is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foley
      • South Shore
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Appleby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Appleby is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleby
      • Kranzburg
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Garden City
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Bradley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Elrod
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Elrod is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elrod
        • Estimated population in 2014: 92 people
      • Lily ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Lily is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
      • Naples
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Naples is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
      • Julian ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Julian is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
      • Crocker
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Clark
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Vienna
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Gros ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Gros is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gros
  • Day County
    • County Website:   https://day.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Day:   Webster
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Waubay
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Lily
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Lily is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
        • Estimated population in 2019: 4 people
      • Webster
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Butler
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Butler is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
      • Holmquist
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Holmquist is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmquist
        • Estimated population in 2014: 154 people
      • Grenville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Bristol
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Deuel County
  • Grant County
  • Hamlin County
    • County Website:   https://hamlinco.us/
    • County Seat for Hamlin:   Hayti
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Hazel
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Thomas
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Thomas is located in Hamlin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
        • Estimated population in 2014: 290 people
      • Kones Corner
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Kones Corner is located in Hamlin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kones Corner
      • Castlewood
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Hayti
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Roberts 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 from Point A (ie- Florence) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.