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Nearest Communities to Kadoka,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Kadoka is located in Jackson County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: Bennett, Haakon, Jones, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington & Todd.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Kadoka. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Jackson 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 Kadoka (which is Jackson 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 Kadoka

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

  • Jackson County   (where Kadoka resides)
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kadoka   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kadoka.
      • Kadoka Junction
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kadoka Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
        • Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
      • Belvidere
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belvidere have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
        • Belvidere is located in Jackson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belvidere <4>
      • Philip Junction
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Philip Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
        • Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
      • Weta
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Weta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weta
        • Weta is located in Jackson County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Weta
        • From Kadoka to Weta
      • Wanblee
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wanblee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wanblee
        • Wanblee is located in Jackson County
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 725 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wanblee <4>
      • Cactus Flat
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cactus Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
        • Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County
      • Stamford
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stamford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stamford
        • Stamford is located in Jackson County
      • Cottonwood
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
      • Interior
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Long Valley
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Valley
        • Long Valley is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Long Valley <4>
  • Haakon County
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kadoka   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kadoka.
      • Powell
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Powell is located in Haakon County
      • Philip
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Nowlin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Nowlin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nowlin
        • Nowlin is located in Haakon County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Nowlin
        • From Kadoka to Nowlin
      • Midland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
      • Lucerne
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lucerne have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
        • Lucerne is located in Haakon County
      • Ottumwa
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ottumwa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottumwa
        • Ottumwa is located in Haakon County
      • Grindstone
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grindstone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
        • Grindstone is located in Haakon County
  • Jones County
  • Mellette County
    • County Seat for Mellette:   White River
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kadoka   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kadoka.
      • Corn Creek
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corn Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corn Creek
        • Corn Creek is located in Mellette County
      • Norris
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cedar Butte
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Butte
        • Cedar Butte is located in Mellette 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 from Point A (ie- Kadoka) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kadoka. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8358, Longitude: -101.5102    
<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.




 

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