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Nearest Communities to Philip,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Philip.<1>

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

Philip is located in Haakon County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Haakon County: Dewey, Jackson, Jones, Meade, Pennington, Stanley & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Philip. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Haakon 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 Philip (which is Haakon 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 Philip

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

  • Haakon County   (where Philip resides)
    • County Website:   https://haakon.southdakotadirectors.com/
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Philip   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Philip.
      • Powell
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Powell is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
      • Lucerne
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Lucerne is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Elbon
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Elbon is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
      • Grindstone
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Grindstone is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
      • Nowlin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Hilland
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Hilland is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilland
      • Ottumwa
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Ottumwa is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottumwa
      • Billsburg
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Billsburg is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
      • Midland
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Hartley
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Hartley is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
        • Estimated population in 2014: 129 people
      • Dowling ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Dowling is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
      • Milesville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • West Fork
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • West Fork is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fork
  • Jackson County
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Philip   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Philip.
      • Philip Junction
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
      • Cottonwood
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
      • Kadoka Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
      • Kadoka
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Weta
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Cactus Flat
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
      • Belvidere
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Interior
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Stamford
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Stamford is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stamford
  • Pennington County

Footnotes ...

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