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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Lees Corner (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lees Corner. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Lees Corner ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Lees Corner: Lees Cor. (or less commonly used: Lees Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Lees Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Lees Corner may originally have been Lee's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Lees Corner might be written as Lee Corner.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived 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.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Lees Corner is located in Buffalo County.

To see how the shape of South Dakota's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Buffalo County: Brule, Hand, Hyde, Jerauld & Lyman.

Below are the counties that are near Lees Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lees Corner:

  • Buffalo County     (The home county of Lees Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.
    • Fort Thompson
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Thompson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Thompson
      • Fort Thompson is located in Buffalo County
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 1,282 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Thompson <3>
    • Shelby
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shelby have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby
      • Shelby is located in Buffalo County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 96 people
    • Gann Valley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Brule County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.
    • Chamberlain
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chamberlain have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlain
      • Chamberlain is located in Brule County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,348 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chamberlain <3>
    • Pukwana
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pukwana have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pukwana
      • Pukwana is located in Brule County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 303 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pukwana <3>
    • Lyonville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyonville
      • Lyonville is located in Brule County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 49 people
    • Kimball
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Hand County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.
    • Ames
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
      • Ames is located in Hand County
    • Ree Heights
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ree Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ree Heights
      • Ree Heights is located in Hand County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ree Heights <3>
  • Hyde County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.
    • Stephan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Highmore
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Jerauld County
    • Crow Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crow Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Lake
      • Crow Lake is located in Jerauld County
  • Lyman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.
    • Lower Brule
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Brule have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Brule
      • Lower Brule is located in Lyman County
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 24 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lower Brule <3>
    • East Lyman
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyman
      • East Lyman is located in Lyman County
      • Estimated population in 2019: 145 people
    • Oacoma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oacoma have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oacoma
      • Oacoma is located in Lyman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 478 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oacoma <3>
    • Reliance
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reliance have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reliance
      • Reliance is located in Lyman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reliance <3>
    • Lyman
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
      • Lyman is located in Lyman County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 43 people
    • Kennebec
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lees Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Lees Corner.

Newspapers Published in Lees Corner ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lees Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lees Corner, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lees Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lees Corner:

Cemeteries Near Lees Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lees Corner.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lees Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.

  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Joseph Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph Cemetery
  • Crow Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crow Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crow Creek Cemetery
  • Holy Comforter Episcopal Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Immaculate Conception Mission Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Cedar Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cedar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Cemetery
  • Vega Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vega Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vega Cemetery
  • Spring Hill Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Spring Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spring Hill Cemetery
  • Reliance Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reliance Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reliance Cemetery
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
  • Oacoma Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oacoma Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oacoma Cemetery
  • Norwegian Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norwegian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Norwegian Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norwegian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery
    • Community Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Community Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Community Cemetery
    • St. Anthony Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anthony Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anthony Cemetery

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<6>

While we didn't find Lees Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lees Corner.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Lees Corner, with the one closest to Lees Corner listed first.

  • Crow Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crow Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Creek
    • Crow Creek is located in Buffalo County
  • Lower Brule
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Brule have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Brule
    • Lower Brule is located in Lyman County
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 24 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lower Brule <3>
  • Stephan
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Gann Valley
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Ames
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
    • Ames is located in Hand County
  • Chamberlain
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chamberlain have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlain
    • Chamberlain is located in Brule County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,348 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chamberlain <3>
  • Oacoma
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oacoma have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oacoma
    • Oacoma is located in Lyman County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 478 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oacoma <3>
  • Pukwana
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pukwana have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pukwana
    • Pukwana is located in Brule County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 303 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pukwana <3>
  • Lyonville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyonville
    • Lyonville is located in Brule County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 49 people
  • Lyman
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
    • Lyman is located in Lyman County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 43 people
  • Sweetland ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweetland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
    • Sweetland is located in Hand County
  • Kimball
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lees Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lees Corner.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lees Corner. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of South Dakota: sd.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lees Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lees Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0775, Longitude: -99.3254       In this case, the coordinates for Lees Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<6>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lees Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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