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Nearest Communities to Ordway,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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.

Ordway is located in Brown County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brown County: Dickey (ND), Sargent (ND), Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 57 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ordway. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Brown 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 Ordway (which is Brown 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 Ordway

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

  • Brown County   (where Ordway resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brown.sd.us/
    • County Seat for Brown:   Aberdeen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ordway   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ordway.
      • Prairie Wood Village Addition
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Prairie Wood Village Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Wood Village Addition
        • Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
      • Columbia
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Westport
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Plana
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Plana is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
      • Fisher Estates
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Fisher Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Estates
      • Gederos Estates
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Gederos Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gederos Estates
        • Estimated population in 2014: 212 people
      • Richfield Heights
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Richfield Heights is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield Heights
      • Tacoma Park
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
        • Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
      • Melrose Addition
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Melrose Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Addition
        • Estimated population in 2014: 221 people
      • Bath
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Aberdeen
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Harlin Addition
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Harlin Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlin Addition
      • Continue List   (25 more) ...
        • Richmond Lake Heights Development
          (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Jobee Acres
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
          • Jobee Acres is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobee Acres
          • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
        • Bath Corner
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Bath Corner is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
        • Pleasant Vally Development
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Richmond Heights
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Richmond Heights is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Heights
        • Bieglers First Addition
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Richmond
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
          • Richmond is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
        • Putney
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
          • Putney is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
          • Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
        • Barnard
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • James
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
          • James is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
        • Nahon
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
          • Nahon is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nahon
        • Huffton
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • Huffton is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffton
          • Estimated population in 2014: 316 people
        • Houghton
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rudolph
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • Rudolph is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudolph
        • Warner
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Groton
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Frederick
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Stratford
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Claremont
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Ferney
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Winship
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Winship is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winship
          • Estimated population in 2014: 2,862 people
        • Hecla
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Mansfield
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Randolph
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Randolph is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
        • Verdon
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Verdon is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdon
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 5 people
  • Clark County
  • Day County
  • Edmunds County
  • Marshall County
  • McPherson County
  • Spink County
  • Dickey 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- Ordway) 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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