Nearest Communities to Orton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Orton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Orton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Please note 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.
Orton is located in Stanley County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stanley County: Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Sully & Ziebach.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Orton. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Stanley 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 Orton (which is Stanley 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 Orton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Stanley County (where Orton resides)
- County Seat for Stanley: Fort Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Stanley County
- Nearest Communities to Orton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orton.
- Mission Ridge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Ridge
- Mission Ridge is located in Stanley County
- Estimated population in 2014: 177 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mission Ridge <3>
- Lacy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Sansarc
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Hayes
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hayes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayes
- Hayes is located in Stanley County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hayes <3>
- Dewey County
- County Seat for Dewey: Timber Lake
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Dewey County
- Nearest Communities to Orton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orton.
- Thatcher
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Ridgeview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ridgeview have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeview
- Ridgeview is located in Dewey County
- Estimated population in 2014: 47 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ridgeview <3>
- Parade
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parade
- Parade is located in Dewey County
- Estimated population in 2014: 34 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parade <3>
- Eagle Butte
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Butte
- Eagle Butte is located in Dewey County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,418 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eagle Butte <3>
- North Eagle Butte
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Eagle Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eagle Butte
- North Eagle Butte is located in Dewey County
- Population from the 2010 Census: 1,954 people
- Haakon County
- County Seat for Haakon: Philip
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Haakon County
- Nearest Communities to Orton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orton.
- Moenville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Kirley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hughes County
- County Seat for Hughes: Pierre
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Hughes County
- Nearest Communities to Orton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Orton.
- Oahe
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Gray Goose
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray Goose have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
- Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
- Sully County
- County Website: www.sullycounty.net/
- County Seat for Sully: Onida
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Sully County
- Nearest Communities to Orton ...
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 from Point A (ie- Orton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Orton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.7103, Longitude: -100.8421 In this case, the coordinates for Orton 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> | 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. |