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Nearest Communities to Pedro,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Pedro.<1>

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

Pedro is located in Pennington County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pennington County: Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota & Weston (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pedro. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Pennington 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 Pedro (which is Pennington 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 Pedro

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

  • Pennington County   (where Pedro resides)
  • Haakon County
    • County Website:   https://haakon.southdakotadirectors.com/
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pedro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pedro.
      • Dowling ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Dowling is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
      • Hartley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Hartley is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
        • Estimated population in 2014: 129 people
      • Hilland
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Hilland is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilland
      • Grindstone
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Grindstone is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
      • Billsburg
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Billsburg is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
      • Milesville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Elbon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Elbon is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
      • West Fork
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • West Fork is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fork
  • Meade County
    • County Website:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pedro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pedro.
      • Plainview
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Plainview is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
      • Howes
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Dalzell
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Dalzell is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalzell
      • Marcus
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • White Owl
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Boneita Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Boneita Springs is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneita Springs
      • Elm Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Enning
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Red Owl
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Red Owl is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
      • Union Center
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Haydraw
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Haydraw is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haydraw
  • Ziebach County

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- Pedro) 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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