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Nearest Communities to Hitchcock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Hitchcock.<1>

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

Hitchcock is located in Beadle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beadle County: Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hitchcock. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Beadle 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 Hitchcock (which is Beadle 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 Hitchcock

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

  • Beadle County   (where Hitchcock resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchcock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchcock.
      • Bonilla
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
      • Broadland
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Huron Colony
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
      • Wolsey
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Riverside Colony
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • James Valley Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Wessington
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Huron
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Morningside
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Sheffield
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Virgil
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Yale
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Cavour
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchcock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchcock.
      • Carpenter
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Huron Colony
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Huron Colony is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
      • Pitrodie ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Pitrodie is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
        • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
      • Keefton ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Keefton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefton
      • Merton ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Merton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
      • Carlton ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Carlton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
      • Raymond
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Faulk County
  • Hand County
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchcock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchcock.
      • Burdette
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
      • Vayland
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Saint Lawrence
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Miller
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Jerauld County
  • Kingsbury County
  • Spink County
    • County Website:   https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hitchcock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hitchcock.
      • Spottswood
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Spottswood is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottswood
      • Spink Colony
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Spink Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spink Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 155 people
      • Tulare
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Crandon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Crandon is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
      • Glendale Colony
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Glendale Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Colony
      • LaDelle
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • LaDelle is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaDelle
      • Bloomfield
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Bloomfield is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Frankfort
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Redfield
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Hillside Colony
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Hillside Colony is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Colony
        • Clark Colony
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Clark Colony is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Colony
        • Doland
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Ashton
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Athol
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Athol is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
        • Gallup
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Gallup is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hitchcock) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.