RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of South Dakota >> Haakon County >> Nowlin >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
South Dakota

The Commemorative Quarter for South Dakota





Nearest Communities to Nowlin,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Nowlin.<1>

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

Nowlin is located in Haakon County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Haakon County: Dewey, Jackson, Jones, Meade, Pennington, Stanley & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Nowlin. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Haakon 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 Nowlin (which is Haakon 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 Nowlin

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

  • Haakon County   (where Nowlin resides)
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Nowlin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nowlin.
      • Midland
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Powell
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Powell is located in Haakon County
      • Ottumwa
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ottumwa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottumwa
        • Ottumwa is located in Haakon County
      • Lucerne
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lucerne have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
        • Lucerne is located in Haakon County
      • Philip
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
      • Elbon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elbon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
        • Elbon is located in Haakon County
      • Moenville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moenville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moenville
        • Moenville is located in Haakon County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 18 people
      • West Fork
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fork
        • West Fork is located in Haakon County
      • Billsburg
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Billsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
        • Billsburg is located in Haakon County
  • Jackson County
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Nowlin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nowlin.
      • Belvidere
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belvidere have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
        • Belvidere is located in Jackson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belvidere <3>
      • Stamford
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stamford have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stamford
        • Stamford is located in Jackson County
      • Kadoka Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kadoka Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
        • Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
      • Kadoka
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Philip Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Philip Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
        • Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
      • Weta
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Weta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weta
        • Weta is located in Jackson County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Weta
        • From Nowlin to Weta
      • Cottonwood
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
  • Jones County
  • Stanley County
    • County Seat for Stanley:   Fort Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Nowlin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Nowlin.
      • Bunker ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bunker have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker
        • Bunker is located in Stanley County
      • Hayes
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hayes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayes
        • Hayes is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hayes <3>

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- Nowlin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Nowlin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0502, Longitude: -101.3028       In this case, the coordinates for Nowlin 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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.




 

Copyright 2025
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 21 Mar 2025