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Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Pearl Creek Colony.<1>

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


Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beadle County: Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pearl Creek Colony. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Beadle 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 Pearl Creek Colony (which is Beadle 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 Pearl Creek Colony

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

  • Beadle County   (where Pearl Creek Colony resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pearl Creek Colony.
      • Cavour
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Yale
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Sheffield
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Morningside
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Riverside Colony
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • Huron
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • James Valley Junction
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Huron Colony
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
      • Broadland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Virgil
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Wolsey
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pearl Creek Colony.
      • Pitrodie ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Pitrodie is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
        • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
      • Melham
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Melham is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melham
      • Carpenter
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Success ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Success is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6,741 people
      • Willow Lake
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Carlton ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Carlton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
      • Keefton ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Keefton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefton
      • Huron Colony
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Huron Colony is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
      • Merton ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Merton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
  • Hamlin County
  • Jerauld County
  • Kingsbury County
    • County Website:   https://kingsburycountysd.org/
    • County Seat for Kingsbury:   De Smet
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pearl Creek Colony.
      • Iroquois
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Esmond
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Esmond is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
        • Estimated population in 2014: 60 people
      • Manchester
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Manchester is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
      • Fairview ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Fairview is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Osceola
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Osceola is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
        • Estimated population in 2014: 90 people
      • Bancroft
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bancroft is located in Kingsbury County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
      • De Smet
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Erwin
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake Preston
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Oldham
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Miner County
    • County Website:   https://www.minercountysd.org/
    • County Seat for Miner:   Howard
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pearl Creek Colony.
      • Carthage
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Cloverleaf Colony
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Cloverleaf Colony is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverleaf Colony
      • Fedora
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Argonne
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Argonne is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argonne
      • Roswell
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Roswell is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
        • Estimated population in 2014: 70 people
      • Vilas
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Vilas is located in Miner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vilas
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
      • Howard
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sanborn County
    • County Seat for Sanborn:   Woonsocket
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pearl Creek Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pearl Creek Colony.
      • Artesian
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Forestburg
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Forestburg is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestburg
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 73 people
      • Ruskin Park
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Ruskin Park is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin Park
      • Woonsocket
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cuthbert
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Cuthbert is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
  • Spink 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- Pearl Creek Colony) 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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