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Nearest Communities to Lacy,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.

Keep in mind 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.

Lacy is located in Stanley County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stanley County: Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Sully & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lacy. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Stanley 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 Lacy (which is Stanley 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 Lacy

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

  • Stanley County   (where Lacy resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.stanleycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Stanley:   Fort Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lacy   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lacy.
      • Mission Ridge
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Orton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Orton is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 66 people
      • Sansarc
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Sansarc is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sansarc
      • Wendte
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Wendte is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendte
      • Teton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Teton is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 59 people
      • Fort Pierre
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Verendrye Hill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
      • Hayes
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Bunker ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Bunker is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker
  • Haakon County
  • Hughes County
    • County Website:   https://www.hughescounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hughes:   Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lacy   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lacy.
      • Oahe
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Oahe is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
      • Gray Goose
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
      • Pierre
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Alto
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Alto is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
  • Jones County
  • Sully County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lacy) 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.
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