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Nearest Communities to Richmond Lake Heights Development,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Richmond Lake Heights Development.<1>

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


Richmond Lake Heights Development is located in Brown County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brown County: Dickey (ND), Sargent (ND), Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 53 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Richmond Lake Heights Development. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Brown 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 Richmond Lake Heights Development (which is Brown 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 Richmond Lake Heights Development

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

  • Brown County   (where Richmond Lake Heights Development resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brown.sd.us/
    • County Seat for Brown:   Aberdeen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Richmond Lake Heights Development   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Richmond Lake Heights Development.
      • Bieglers First Addition
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Pleasant Vally Development
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Richmond Heights
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Richmond Heights is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Heights
      • Richfield Heights
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Richfield Heights is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield Heights
      • Richmond
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Richmond is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
      • Fisher Estates
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Fisher Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Estates
      • Gederos Estates
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Gederos Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gederos Estates
        • Estimated population in 2014: 212 people
      • Harlin Addition
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Harlin Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlin Addition
      • Aberdeen
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Prairie Wood Village Addition
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Prairie Wood Village Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Wood Village Addition
        • Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
      • Ordway
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Ordway is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
        • Estimated population in 2014: 306 people
      • Westport
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
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        • Melrose Addition
          (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
          • Melrose Addition is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Addition
          • Estimated population in 2014: 221 people
        • Jobee Acres
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Jobee Acres is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobee Acres
          • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
        • Bath
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Columbia
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Plana
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
          • Plana is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
        • Rudolph
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
          • Rudolph is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudolph
        • Bath Corner
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
          • Bath Corner is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
        • Nahon
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
          • Nahon is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nahon
        • Barnard
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Warner
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Tacoma Park
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
          • Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
        • James
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • James is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
        • Putney
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Putney is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
          • Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
        • Frederick
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Mansfield
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Stratford
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Groton
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Houghton
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Huffton
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Huffton is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffton
          • Estimated population in 2014: 316 people
        • Winship
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Winship is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winship
          • Estimated population in 2014: 2,862 people
        • Ferney
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Randolph
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Randolph is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
        • Claremont
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Verdon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Verdon is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdon
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 5 people
  • Edmunds County
    • County Website:   https://edmunds.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Edmunds:   Ipswich
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Richmond Lake Heights Development   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Richmond Lake Heights Development.
      • Mina
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Mina is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mina
        • Mina has also been known as:
        • Cortland
        • Cortlandt
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mina <3>
      • Craven Corner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Craven Corner is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven Corner
      • Craven
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Craven is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven
      • Plainview Colony
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Plainview Colony is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview Colony
      • Ipswich
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Powell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Powell is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Beebe
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Beebe is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
  • Faulk County
  • McPherson County
    • County Website:   https://mcpherson.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for McPherson:   Leola
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Richmond Lake Heights Development   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Richmond Lake Heights Development.
      • Wetonka
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Wetonka is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetonka
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
      • Long Lake Colony
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Long Lake Colony is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 332 people
      • Leola
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Leola is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leola
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leola <3>
      • Spring Creek Colony
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Spring Creek Colony is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Colony
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 268 people
  • Spink County
  • Dickey 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- Richmond Lake Heights Development) 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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