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Nearest Communities to Oral,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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

Oral 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oral. Of these communities, 16 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 Oral (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 Oral

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

  • Fall River County   (where Oral resides)
    • County Seat for Fall River:   Hot Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oral   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oral.
      • Smithwick
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Hot Springs
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Cascade Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cascade Springs. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
        • Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
      • Erskine
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Erskine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erskine
        • Erskine is located in Fall River County
      • Oelrichs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oelrichs have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oelrichs
        • Oelrichs is located in Fall River County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 124 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oelrichs <3>
      • Heppner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heppner have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
        • Heppner is located in Fall River County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
      • Rocky Ford
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
        • Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Minnekahta
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minnekahta have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta
        • Minnekahta is located in Fall River County
      • Rumford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rumford. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
        • Rumford is located in Fall River County
      • Dudley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dudley have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County
      • Edgemont
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edgemont have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont
        • Edgemont is located in Fall River County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 718 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edgemont <3>
  • Custer County
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oral   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oral.
      • Buffalo Gap
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Fairburn
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairburn have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairburn
        • Fairburn is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairburn <3>
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cold Spring II have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
      • Argyle
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Argyle have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
      • Pringle
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pringle have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pringle
        • Pringle is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pringle <3>
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ivanhoe have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Nihart
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nihart have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
      • Blue Bell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blue Bell have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
      • State Game Lodge
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for State Game Lodge have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
        • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
      • Sanator
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sanator have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 1,350 people
      • Custer
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hermosa
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Spokane ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Spokane. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokane
        • Spokane is located in Custer County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 3,237 people
      • Fourmile
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fourmile have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
  • Oglala Lakota 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 from Point A (ie- Oral) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oral. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4050, Longitude: -103.2691       In this case, the coordinates for Oral 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>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.
<5>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.




 

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