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Nearest Communities to Hosmer,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Hosmer.<1>

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

Hosmer is located in Edmunds County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Edmunds County: Brown, Campbell, Faulk, McPherson, Potter, Spink & Walworth.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hosmer. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Edmunds 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 Hosmer (which is Edmunds 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 Hosmer

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

  • Edmunds County   (where Hosmer resides)
  • Campbell County
    • County Seat for Campbell:   Mound City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hosmer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hosmer.
      • Artas
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Artas have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artas
        • Artas is located in Campbell County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 9 people
      • Mound City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mound City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound City
        • Mound City is located in Campbell County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 65 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mound City <4>
  • Faulk County
  • McPherson County
    • County Website:   https://mcpherson.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for McPherson:   Leola
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hosmer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hosmer.
      • Hillsview
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillsview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsview
        • Hillsview is located in McPherson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
      • Eureka
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Long Lake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
        • Long Lake is located in McPherson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
      • Greenway
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenway
        • Greenway is located in McPherson County
      • Madra
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Madra have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madra
        • Madra is located in McPherson County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 7,126 people
      • Leola
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leola have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leola
        • Leola is located in McPherson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leola <4>
  • Potter County
  • Walworth County
  • McIntosh County
    • County Website:   https://www.mcintoshnd.com/
    • County Seat for McIntosh:   Ashley (ND)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hosmer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hosmer.
      • Lowell
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
        • Lowell is located in McIntosh County (ND)
      • Venturia
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Venturia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venturia
        • Venturia is located in McIntosh County (ND)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Venturia <4>

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- Hosmer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hosmer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5777, Longitude: -99.4734    
<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.
<5>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.