Nearest Communities to Howes,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Howes, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Howes:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Howes is located in Meade County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Howes. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Howes (which is Meade 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 Howes
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Meade County (where Howes resides)
- County Website: www.meadecounty.org/
- County Seat for Meade: Sturgis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- Nearest Communities to Howes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Howes.
- Plainview
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Marcus
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
- Marcus is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marcus <4>
- White Owl
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Owl
- White Owl is located in Meade County
- Estimated population in 2014: 373 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White Owl <4>
- Avance ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Dalzell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Enning
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enning have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enning
- Enning is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Enning <4>
- Red Owl
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
- Red Owl is located in Meade County
- Opal
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
- Opal is located in Meade County
- Estimated population in 2014: 30 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <4>
- Boneita Springs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boneita Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneita Springs
- Boneita Springs is located in Meade County
- Faith
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Faith have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faith
- Faith is located in Meade County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Faith <4>
- Stoneville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stoneville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
- Stoneville is located in Meade County
- Union Center
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Center
- Union Center is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Union Center <4>
- Haakon County
- County Seat for Haakon: Philip
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- Nearest Communities to Howes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Howes.
- Dowling ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Hartley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Milesville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milesville
- Milesville is located in Haakon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Milesville <4>
- Billsburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Hilland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - West Fork
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Elbon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pennington County
- County Website: www.co.pennington.sd.us/
- County Seat for Pennington: Rapid City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Pennington County
- Nearest Communities to Howes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Howes.
- Pedro
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Creighton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creighton
- Creighton is located in Pennington County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Creighton <4>
- Ziebach County
- County Seat for Ziebach: Dupree
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Ziebach County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Ziebach County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Ziebach County
- Nearest Communities to Howes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Howes.
- Bridger
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger
- Bridger is located in Ziebach County
- Red Scaffold
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Scaffold have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Scaffold
- Red Scaffold is located in Ziebach County
- Estimated population in 2014: 372 people
- Cherry Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
- Cherry Creek is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cherry Creek <4>
- Chase
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
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- Howes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Howes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6183, Longitude: -102.0518 |
| <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. |