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Nearest Communities to Prairie City,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind 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.

Prairie City is located in Perkins County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Perkins County: Adams (ND), Butte, Corson, Harding, Meade & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairie City. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Perkins 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 Prairie City (which is Perkins 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 Prairie City

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

  • Perkins County   (where Prairie City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.perkinscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Perkins:   Bison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie City.
      • Strool
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Strool is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strool
        • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
      • Sorum
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Sorum is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sorum
      • Date
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Date is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Date
      • Bison
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Lodgepole
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Ellingson ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Ellingson is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellingson
      • Zeona
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Chance
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Chance is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
      • Imogene
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Imogene is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imogene
      • Meadow
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Bixby
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Bixby is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixby
  • Harding County

Footnotes ...

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