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Nearest Communities to Minnekahta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

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

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

Minnekahta is located in Fall River County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fall River County: Dawes (NE), Sioux (NE), Custer, Oglala Lakota & Niobrara (WY).

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

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

  • Fall River County   (where Minnekahta resides)
    • County Website:   https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Fall River:   Hot Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Minnekahta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Minnekahta.
      • Erskine
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Erskine is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erskine
      • Cascade Springs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
      • Hot Springs
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Rocky Ford
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Dudley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
      • Edgemont
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Marietta
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Marietta is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
      • Heppner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Heppner is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
        • Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
      • Dennis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Dennis is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
      • Burdock
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Burdock is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdock
      • Igloo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Igloo is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igloo
      • Provo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
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        • Rumford
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Rumford is located in Fall River County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
        • Oral
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Oral is located in Fall River County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oral
          • Estimated population in 2014: 206 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oral <3>
        • Smithwick
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Ardmore ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Ardmore is located in Fall River County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
        • Oelrichs
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Minnekahta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Minnekahta.
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Argyle
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Pringle
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Nihart
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Sanator
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Dewey
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Dewey is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
      • Buffalo Gap
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Fourmile
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Blue Bell
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • Custer
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Danoby ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Danoby is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danoby
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        • Berne
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Berne is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Vestal Springs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Vestal Springs is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vestal Springs
        • Junction Ranger Station
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • State Game Lodge
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
          • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
        • Sylvan Lake Resort
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Sylvan Lake Resort is located in Custer County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Lake Resort
        • Fairburn
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Pennington County
  • Niobrara County
  • Weston County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Minnekahta) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.