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Nearest Communities to Orient,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 starting from Orient.<1>

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

Orient is located in Faulk County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Faulk County: Brown, Edmunds, Hand, Hyde, Potter & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Orient. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Faulk 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 Orient (which is Faulk 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 Orient

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

  • Faulk County   (where Orient resides)
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Orient   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Orient.
      • Miranda
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Faulkton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Rockham
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rockham have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockham
        • Rockham is located in Faulk County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rockham <3>
      • Burkmere
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burkmere have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkmere
        • Burkmere is located in Faulk County
      • Devoe
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devoe have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devoe
        • Devoe is located in Faulk County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 23 people
      • Zell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zell
        • Zell is located in Faulk County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
      • Millard
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Millard. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard
        • Millard is located in Faulk County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Millard
        • From Orient to Millard
      • Wecota
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Cresbard
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cresbard have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cresbard
        • Cresbard is located in Faulk County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cresbard <3>
      • Norbeck
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norbeck have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norbeck
        • Norbeck is located in Faulk County
      • Seneca
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Chelsea
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chelsea have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
        • Chelsea is located in Faulk County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
      • Onaka
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Edmunds County
  • Hand County
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Orient   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Orient.
      • Polo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Polo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florence have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Burdette
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burdette have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
      • Miller
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Ree Heights
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Saint Lawrence
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Lawrence have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence
        • Saint Lawrence is located in Hand County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Lawrence <3>
  • Hyde County
  • Spink County
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Orient   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Orient.
      • Athol
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Athol have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
        • Athol is located in Spink County
      • Redfield
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Ashton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Tulare
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tulare have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
        • Tulare is located in Spink County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 209 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <3>
      • Northville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Northville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northville
        • Northville is located in Spink County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Northville <3>

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Orient) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Orient. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9012, Longitude: -99.0896    
<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>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.
<5>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.




 

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