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Nearest Communities to Oelrichs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast 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 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 starting from Oelrichs.<1>

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

Oelrichs 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 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oelrichs. Of these communities, 12 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 Oelrichs (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 Oelrichs

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

  • Fall River County   (where Oelrichs resides)
    • County Website:   https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Fall River:   Hot Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oelrichs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oelrichs.
      • Smithwick
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Oral
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • 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>
      • Heppner
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Heppner is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
        • Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
      • Cascade Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
      • Rocky Ford
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Hot Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Erskine
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Erskine is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erskine
      • Rumford
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Rumford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
      • Ardmore ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Ardmore is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
      • Minnekahta
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Minnekahta is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta
      • Dudley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
      • Edgemont
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Provo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Custer County
  • Oglala Lakota County
  • Dawes County
    • County Website:   https://dawescounty.ne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dawes:   Chadron (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oelrichs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oelrichs.
      • Dakota Junction
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Dakota Junction is located in Dawes County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota Junction
      • Prairie Pines Retirement Community
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Whitney
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Chadron
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Chadron is located in Dawes County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chadron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,250 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chadron <3>
      • Horn
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Horn is located in Dawes County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
  • Sioux County
    • County Website:   https://siouxcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Harrison (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oelrichs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oelrichs.
      • Orella
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Orella is located in Sioux County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orella
      • Joder
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Joder is located in Sioux County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joder
      • Montrose ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Montrose is located in Sioux County (NE)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oelrichs) 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.
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