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Nearest Communities to Miller Dale Colony,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Miller Dale Colony.<1>

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

Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hand County: Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hyde, Jerauld & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Miller Dale Colony. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Hand 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 Miller Dale Colony (which is Hand 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 Miller Dale Colony

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

  • Hand County   (where Miller Dale Colony resides)
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Miller Dale Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Miller Dale Colony.
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweetland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
      • Ree Heights
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ree Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
      • Ames
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
        • Ames is located in Hand County
      • Miller
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Lawrence
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Lawrence have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence
        • Saint Lawrence is located in Hand County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Lawrence <4>
      • Danforth
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Danforth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
      • Vayland
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vayland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florence have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Polo
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Polo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
      • Burdette
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burdette have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
  • Beadle County
  • Buffalo County
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Gann Valley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Miller Dale Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Miller Dale Colony.
      • Lees Corner
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • 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
      • Gann Valley
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Fort Thompson
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • 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>
  • Hyde County
    • County Seat for Hyde:   Highmore
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Miller Dale Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Miller Dale Colony.
      • Bramhall ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bramhall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramhall
        • Bramhall is located in Hyde County
      • Highmore
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Macs Corner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • 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
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Holabird
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holabird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holabird
        • Holabird is located in Hyde County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holabird <4>
  • Jerauld 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- Miller Dale Colony) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Miller Dale Colony. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4000, Longitude: -99.1129       In this case, the coordinates for Miller Dale Colony 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.




 

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