Nearest Communities to Oahe,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Oahe, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Oahe:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Oahe.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Oahe is located in Hughes County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hughes County: Hyde, Lyman, Stanley & Sully.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oahe. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Hughes 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 Oahe (which is Hughes 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 Oahe
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Hughes County (where Oahe resides)
- County Seat for Hughes: Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- Nearest Communities to Oahe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oahe.
- Gray Goose
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray Goose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
- Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
- Pierre
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierre
- Pierre is located in Hughes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,708 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pierre <4>
- Alto
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
- Alto is located in Hughes County
- Canning
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Rousseau
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Blunt
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blunt
- Blunt is located in Hughes County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 352 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blunt <4>
- Jones County
- County Seat for Jones: Murdo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Jones County
- Nearest Communities to Oahe ...
- Stanley County
- County Seat for Stanley: Fort Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- Nearest Communities to Oahe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oahe.
- Lacy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - Fort Pierre
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Pierre
- Fort Pierre is located in Stanley County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,236 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Pierre <4>
- Verendrye Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
- Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
- Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
- Teton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Wendte
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Mission Ridge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Ridge
- Mission Ridge is located in Stanley County
- Estimated population in 2014: 177 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mission Ridge <4>
- Orton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Hayes
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hayes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Sansarc
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Sully County
- County Website: www.sullycounty.net/
- County Seat for Sully: Onida
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- Nearest Communities to Oahe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oahe.
- Okobojo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Eakin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Onida
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onida
- Onida is located in Sully County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 628 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Onida <4>
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oahe) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oahe. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4578, Longitude: -100.5310 In this case, the coordinates for Oahe 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. |