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Nearest Communities to Hot Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Hot Springs.<1>

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

Hot Springs is located in Fall River County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fall River County: Dawes (NE), Sioux (NE), Custer, Oglala Lakota & Niobrara (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hot Springs. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Fall River 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 Hot Springs (which is Fall River 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 Hot Springs

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

  • Fall River County   (where Hot Springs resides)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hot Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hot Springs.
      • Buffalo Gap
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Argyle
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Pringle
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Nihart
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Blue Bell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • Sanator
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Fairburn
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Custer
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • State Game Lodge
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
        • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
      • Fourmile
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Danoby ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Danoby is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
        • Berne
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Berne is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Spokane ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Sylvan Lake Resort
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Sylvan Lake Resort is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Lake Resort
        • Vestal Springs
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
        • Dewey
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Junction Ranger Station
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pennington County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hot Springs) 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.