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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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Oral.<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 Website:   https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
    • 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)
        • Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
      • Erskine
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Erskine is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erskine
      • Oelrichs
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Heppner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Heppner is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner
        • Estimated population in 2014: 267 people
      • Rocky Ford
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Minnekahta
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Minnekahta is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta
      • Rumford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Rumford is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford
      • Dudley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
      • Edgemont
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • 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)
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
      • Argyle
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
      • Pringle
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Nihart
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Nihart is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nihart
      • Blue Bell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • State Game Lodge
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
        • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
      • Sanator
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Sanator is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanator
        • 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)
        • Spokane is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokane
        • Estimated population in 2014: 3,237 people
      • Fourmile
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Fourmile is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
  • Oglala Lakota County

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- Oral) 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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