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Nearest Communities to Highmore,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Highmore is located in Hyde County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hyde County: Buffalo, Faulk, Hand, Hughes, Lyman, Potter & Sully.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Highmore. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Hyde 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 Highmore (which is Hyde 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 Highmore

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

  • Hyde County   (where Highmore resides)
    • County Seat for Hyde:   Highmore
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Highmore   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Highmore.
      • Bramhall ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bramhall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramhall
        • Bramhall is located in Hyde County
      • Holabird
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Macs Corner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Macs Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macs Corner
        • Macs Corner is located in Hyde County
      • Stephan
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Buffalo County
  • Hand County
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Highmore   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Highmore.
      • Ree Heights
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Miller Dale Colony
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miller Dale Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Dale Colony
        • Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County
      • Miller
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Saint Lawrence
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Lawrence have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence
        • Saint Lawrence is located in Hand County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Lawrence <5>
      • Polo
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Polo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
      • Ames
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florence have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweetland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
  • Hughes County
    • County Seat for Hughes:   Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Highmore   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Highmore.
      • Harrold
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrold have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrold
        • Harrold is located in Hughes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrold <5>
      • Blunt
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • De Grey
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Grey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey
        • De Grey is located in Hughes County
      • Canning
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canning have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
        • Canning is located in Hughes County
  • Sully County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Highmore) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Highmore. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5182, Longitude: -99.4417    
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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