Nearest Communities to Fort Pierre,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Pierre, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Pierre:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Fort Pierre.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fort Pierre is located in Stanley County and is the County Seat.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stanley County: Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Sully & Ziebach.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Pierre. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Stanley 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 Fort Pierre (which is Stanley 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 Fort Pierre
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Stanley County (where Fort Pierre resides)
- County Seat for Stanley: Fort Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Pierre ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Pierre.
- Verendrye Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
- Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
- Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
- Teton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest) - Wendte
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Lacy
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Hughes County
- County Seat for Hughes: Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Pierre ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Pierre.
- Pierre
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierre
- Pierre is located in Hughes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,708 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pierre <4>
- Gray Goose
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray Goose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
- Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
- Oahe
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Alto
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
- Alto is located in Hughes County
- Rousseau
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Canning
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east) - Blunt
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blunt
- Blunt is located in Hughes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 352 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blunt <4>
- De Grey
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Jones County
- County Seat for Jones: Murdo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Pierre ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Pierre.
- Van Metre
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Draper
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Draper have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draper
- Draper is located in Jones County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Draper <4>
- Lyman County
- County Seat for Lyman: Kennebec
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Lyman County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Pierre ...
- Vivian
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vivian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
- Vivian is located in Lyman County
- Estimated population in 2014: 149 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vivian <4>
- Vivian
- 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 Fort Pierre ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Pierre.
- Okobojo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north) - Eakin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Onida
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- 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>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fort Pierre) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Pierre. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3549, Longitude: -100.3740 |
| <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. |