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Nearest Communities to Red Shirt,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Red Shirt.<1>

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

Red Shirt is located in Oglala Lakota County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oglala Lakota County: Dawes (NE), Sheridan (NE), Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson & Pennington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Shirt. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Oglala Lakota 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 Red Shirt (which is Oglala Lakota 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 Red Shirt

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

  • Oglala Lakota County   (where Red Shirt resides)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Shirt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Shirt.
      • Folsom
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Folsom is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
      • Fairburn
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Hermosa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Buffalo Gap
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • State Game Lodge
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
        • Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
      • Spokane ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Spokane is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokane
        • Estimated population in 2014: 3,237 people
      • Blue Bell
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Blue Bell is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
      • Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
  • Fall River County
  • Pennington County
    • County Website:   https://pennco.org/
    • County Seat for Pennington:   Rapid City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Shirt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Shirt.
      • Scenic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Creston ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Creston is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
      • Farmingdale
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Farmingdale is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmingdale
        • Estimated population in 2014: 10 people
      • Ajax
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Ajax is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajax
      • Caputa
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Imlay
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Imlay is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
        • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
      • Hayward ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Hayward is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
      • Warbonnet
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Warbonnet is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warbonnet
      • Green Valley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Green Valley is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
        • Estimated population in 2014: 51 people
      • Owanka
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Frenchtown ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Frenchtown is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchtown
        • Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
      • Harney
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Harney is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
        • Estimated population in 2014: 64 people
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        • Murphy
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Murphy is located in Pennington County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy
          • Estimated population in 2014: 482 people
        • Mawl Springs
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Mawl Springs is located in Pennington County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mawl Springs
        • New Underwood
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Rapid Valley
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Rapid Valley is located in Pennington County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rapid Valley
          • Population from the 2010 Census: 8,260 people
        • Keystone
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Rockerville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Stratosphere Bowl
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Stratosphere Bowl is located in Pennington County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratosphere Bowl
          • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people

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- Red Shirt) 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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