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Nearest Communities to Plainview Listed By‑County ...

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

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

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

Plainview is located in Meade County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plainview. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Plainview (which is Meade 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 Plainview

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

  • Meade County   (where Plainview resides)
    • County Website:   www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • Howes
      • Marcus
      • White Owl
      • Enning
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enning
        • Enning lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the west of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enning have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Enning
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Enning<3>
      • Red Owl
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
        • Red Owl lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the west of Plainview.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Red Owl
      • Avance ‑ Historic
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avance
        • Avance was located 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the north of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Avance have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Dalzell
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalzell
        • Dalzell lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the southwest of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dalzell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Dalzell
      • Boneita Springs
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneita Springs
        • Boneita Springs lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the southwest of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boneita Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Boneita Springs
      • Opal
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Stoneville
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
          • Stoneville lies 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> to the west of Plainview.
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stoneville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to Google Maps centered on Stoneville
        • Union Center
        • Elm Springs
        • Faith
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faith
          • Faith lies 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> to the north of Plainview.
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Faith have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to Google Maps centered on Faith
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Faith<3>
        • Haydraw
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haydraw
          • Haydraw lies 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> to the west of Plainview.
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haydraw have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to Google Maps centered on Haydraw
        • Fairpoint
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
          • Fairpoint lies 32 miles [51.5 km]<1> to the west of Plainview.
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairpoint have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to Google Maps centered on Fairpoint
  • Haakon County
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • Dowling ‑ Historic
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
        • Dowling was located 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the southeast of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dowling have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Hartley
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
        • Hartley lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the southeast of Plainview.
        • Estimated population in 2014: 129 people
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Hartley
      • Milesville
      • Hilland
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilland
        • Hilland lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> to the southeast of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Hilland
      • Billsburg
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
        • Billsburg lies 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> to the southeast of Plainview.
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Billsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to Google Maps centered on Billsburg
  • Pennington County
  • 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- Plainview) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Plainview. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6022, Longitude: -102.1616       In this case, the coordinates for Plainview 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.




 

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