Nearest Communities to Forest City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Forest City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Forest City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 north.
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 north 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.
Forest City is located in Potter County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Potter County: Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Hyde, Sully & Walworth.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Forest City. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Potter 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 Forest City (which is Potter 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 Forest City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Potter County (where Forest City resides)
- County Seat for Potter: Gettysburg
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Potter County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Potter County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Potter County
- Nearest Communities to Forest City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forest City.
- Gorman
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Gettysburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gettysburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gettysburg
- Gettysburg is located in Potter County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,085 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gettysburg <4>
- Lebanon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lebanon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lebanon
- Lebanon is located in Potter County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lebanon <4>
- Hoven
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoven
- Hoven is located in Potter County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 368 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hoven <4>
- Dewey County
- County Seat for Dewey: Timber Lake
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- Nearest Communities to Forest City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forest City.
- Marksville
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marksville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville
- Marksville is located in Dewey County
- Estimated population in 2014: 771 people
- La Plant
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Virginia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Moreau
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Ridgeview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ridgeview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeview
- Ridgeview is located in Dewey County
- Estimated population in 2014: 47 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ridgeview <4>
- Promise
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Yellowhorse Ford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellowhorse Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowhorse Ford
- Yellowhorse Ford is located in Dewey County
- Thatcher
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Sully County
- County Website: www.sullycounty.net/
- County Seat for Sully: Onida
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- Nearest Communities to Forest City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forest City.
- Agar
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Agar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agar
- Agar is located in Sully County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Agar <4>
- Onida
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onida
- Onida is located in Sully County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 628 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Onida <4>
- Okobojo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Eakin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Walworth County
- County Seat for Walworth: Selby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Walworth County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Walworth County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Walworth County
- Nearest Communities to Forest City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forest City.
- Akaska
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akaska
- Akaska is located in Walworth County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Akaska <4>
- Lowry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
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- Forest City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Forest City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.0028, Longitude: -100.3004 In this case, the coordinates for Forest City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |