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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 community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Florence.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Florence is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Hand County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hand County: Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hyde, Jerauld & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Florence. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Hand County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> 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 Hand 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.

  • Hand County   (where Florence resides)
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Polo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
      • Burdette
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
      • Miller
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Saint Lawrence
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Vayland
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Ree Heights
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Miller Dale Colony
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Dale Colony
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
      • Ames
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Ames is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
      • Danforth
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
  • Beadle County
  • Faulk County
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Orient
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Rockham
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Miranda
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Miranda is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miranda
        • Estimated population in 2014: 122 people
      • Zell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Zell is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zell
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
      • Faulkton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Devoe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Devoe is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 23 people
      • Burkmere
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Burkmere is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkmere
  • Hyde County
  • Spink County
    • County Website:   https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Florence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Florence.
      • Spottswood
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Spottswood is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottswood
      • Tulare
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Crandon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Crandon is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
      • Redfield
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Athol
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Athol is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol

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>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Florence, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.