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Nearest Communities to Ortley,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast 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 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.

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.

Ortley is located in Roberts County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roberts County: Big Stone (MN), Traverse (MN), Richland (ND), Day, Grant & Marshall.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ortley. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Roberts 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 Ortley (which is Roberts 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 Ortley

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

  • Roberts County   (where Ortley resides)
    • County Website:   https://robertscosd.gov/
    • County Seat for Roberts:   Sisseton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ortley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ortley.
      • Rudebusch Corner
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Rudebusch Corner is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudebusch Corner
      • Summit
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Spring Grove
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Spring Grove is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
        • Estimated population in 2014: 125 people
      • Wilmot
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Goodwill
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Goodwill is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwill
        • Estimated population in 2014: 876 people
      • Peever Flats
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Peever Flats is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peever Flats
      • Peever
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Corona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Valley View Estates
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Valley View Estates is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View Estates
      • Sisseton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Madsen Beach
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Madsen Beach is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madsen Beach
      • Long Hollow Housing
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Long Hollow Housing is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Hollow Housing
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 192 people
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Hiawatha Beach
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Hiawatha Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiawatha Beach
        • Hartford Beach
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Hartford Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford Beach
          • Estimated population in 2014: 126 people
        • South Dakota Park
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • South Dakota Park is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dakota Park
          • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
        • Linden Beach
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Linden Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden Beach
        • Shady Beach
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Shady Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Beach
  • Clark County
  • Codington County
    • County Website:   https://www.codington.org/
    • County Seat for Codington:   Watertown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ortley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ortley.
      • Florence
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • South Shore
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Wallace
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Rauville
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Rauville is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 292 people
      • Waverly
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • North Shore
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • North Shore is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shore
      • Watertown
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Day County
    • County Website:   https://day.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Day:   Webster
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ortley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ortley.
      • Waubay
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Grenville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Webster
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Roslyn
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Holmquist
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Holmquist is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmquist
        • Estimated population in 2014: 154 people
      • Lily
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Lily is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
        • Estimated population in 2019: 4 people
      • Butler
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Butler is located in Day County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
      • Bristol
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Grant County
  • Marshall County
  • Big Stone County
  • Traverse County

Footnotes ...

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