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Nearest Communities to Reliance,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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 Reliance.<1>

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

Reliance is located in Lyman County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lyman County: Brule, Buffalo, Gregory, Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Mellette, Stanley & Tripp.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Reliance. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Lyman 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 Reliance (which is Lyman 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 Reliance

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

  • Lyman County   (where Reliance resides)
    • County Website:   http://lymancounty.org/
    • County Seat for Lyman:   Kennebec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Reliance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Reliance.
      • East Lyman
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • East Lyman is located in Lyman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyman
        • Estimated population in 2019: 145 people
      • Lyman
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Lyman is located in Lyman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
        • Estimated population in 2014: 43 people
      • Oacoma
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Council House
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Council House is located in Lyman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Council House
      • Lower Brule
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Kennebec
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Presho
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Iona
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Brule County
    • County Website:   https://www.brulecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Brule:   Chamberlain
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Reliance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Reliance.
      • Chamberlain
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Grosse
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Grosse is located in Brule County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grosse
      • Pukwana
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Grandview
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Grandview is located in Brule County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Ola
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Ola is located in Brule County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ola
        • Estimated population in 2014: 108 people
  • Buffalo County
  • Hyde County
  • Tripp County

Footnotes ...

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