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Nearest Communities to Harrington,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>

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

Harrington is located in Bennett County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bennett County: Cherry (NE), Jackson, Oglala Lakota & Todd.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Harrington. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Bennett 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 Harrington (which is Bennett 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 Harrington

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

  • Bennett County   (where Harrington resides)
    • County Seat for Bennett:   Martin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrington.
      • Vetal
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Vetal is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vetal
      • Blackpipe
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Blackpipe is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackpipe
      • Tuthill
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Patricia
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Patricia is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
      • Black Eyes
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Black Eyes is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eyes
      • Martin
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Bad Wound
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Bad Wound is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bad Wound
      • Plenty Bears
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Plenty Bears is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plenty Bears
        • Estimated population in 2014: 109 people
  • Jackson County
  • Mellette County
  • Todd County
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrington.
      • Spring Creek
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Spring Creek is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
        • Estimated population in 2014: 122 people
      • Parmelee
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Francis
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Two Strike
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Two Strike is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Strike
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 209 people
      • Rosebud
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Soldier Creek
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Soldier Creek is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier Creek
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 227 people
      • Lakeview
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Lakeview is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 799 people
  • Cherry County
    • County Website:   https://cherrycountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Cherry:   Valentine (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Harrington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Harrington.
      • Cody
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Cody is located in Cherry County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cody
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 157 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cody <3>
      • Nenzel
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Nenzel is located in Cherry County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenzel
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nenzel <3>
      • Eli
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Eli is located in Cherry County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli
      • Kilgore
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Merriman
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Crookston
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

Footnotes ...

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