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Nearest Communities to Lower Brule,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Lower Brule.<1>

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

Lower Brule is located in Lyman County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lyman County: Brule, Buffalo, Gregory, Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Mellette, Stanley & Tripp.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lower Brule. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Lyman 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 Lower Brule (which is Lyman 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 Lower Brule

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

  • Lyman County   (where Lower Brule resides)
    • County Seat for Lyman:   Kennebec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Brule   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Brule.
      • Council House
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Council House have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Council House
        • Council House is located in Lyman County
      • East Lyman
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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
      • Reliance
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reliance have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
      • Lyman
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Oacoma
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oacoma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
      • Presho
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Presho have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presho
        • Presho is located in Lyman County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Presho <4>
  • Brule County
    • County Seat for Brule:   Chamberlain
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Brule   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Brule.
      • Grosse
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grosse have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grosse
        • Grosse is located in Brule County
      • Chamberlain
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chamberlain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
      • Pukwana
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pukwana have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
  • Buffalo County
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Gann Valley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Brule   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Brule.
      • Fort Thompson
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Thompson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
      • Lees Corner
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lees Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees Corner
        • Lees Corner is located in Buffalo County
      • Crow Creek
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Crow Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Creek
        • Crow Creek is located in Buffalo County
      • Shelby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shelby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Hand County
  • Hughes County
    • County Seat for Hughes:   Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Brule   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Brule.
      • De Grey
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Grey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey
        • De Grey is located in Hughes County
      • Rousseau
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rousseau have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau
        • Rousseau is located in Hughes County
  • Hyde County
    • County Seat for Hyde:   Highmore
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Brule   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Brule.
      • Macs Corner
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Macs Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macs Corner
        • Macs Corner is located in Hyde County
      • Stephan
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Holabird
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Holabird. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holabird
        • Holabird is located in Hyde County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holabird <4>

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lower Brule) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lower Brule. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0789, Longitude: -99.5815       In this case, the coordinates for Lower Brule have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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