Nearest Communities to Rocky Ford,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Rocky Ford, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Rocky Ford:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 from Rocky Ford.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Rocky Ford is located in Fall River County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fall River County: Dawes (NE), Sioux (NE), Custer, Oglala Lakota & Niobrara (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rocky Ford. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Fall River 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 Rocky Ford (which is Fall River 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 Rocky Ford
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Fall River County (where Rocky Ford resides)
- County Seat for Fall River: Hot Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Fall River County
- Nearest Communities to Rocky Ford ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rocky Ford.
- Heppner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast) - Cascade Springs
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cascade Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade Springs
- Cascade Springs is located in Fall River County
- Erskine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north) - Minnekahta
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minnekahta have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta
- Minnekahta is located in Fall River County
- Hot Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
- Hot Springs is located in Fall River County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,502 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hot Springs <4>
- Dudley
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west) - Edgemont
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edgemont have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont
- Edgemont is located in Fall River County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 718 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edgemont <4>
- Rumford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - Provo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provo
- Provo is located in Fall River County
- Estimated population in 2014: 32 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Provo <4>
- Dennis
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Igloo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Marietta
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest) - Continue List (5 more) ...
- Oral
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oral have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oral
- Oral is located in Fall River County
- Estimated population in 2014: 206 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oral <4>
- Ardmore ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
- Ardmore is located in Fall River County
- Oelrichs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oelrichs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oelrichs
- Oelrichs is located in Fall River County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 124 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oelrichs <4>
- Smithwick
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithwick
- Smithwick is located in Fall River County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Smithwick <4>
- Burdock
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Oral
- Custer County
- County Seat for Custer: Custer
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Rocky Ford ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rocky Ford.
- Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Argyle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north) - Buffalo Gap
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Gap
- Buffalo Gap is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buffalo Gap <4>
- Pringle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pringle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pringle
- Pringle is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pringle <4>
- Cold Spring II ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cold Spring II have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring II
- Cold Spring II is located in Custer County
- Nihart
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Dewey
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
- Dewey is located in Custer County
- Sanator
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Blue Bell
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Sioux County
- County Website: www.co.sioux.ne.us/
- County Seat for Sioux: Harrison (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- Nearest Communities to Rocky Ford ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rocky Ford.
- Montrose ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Orella
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Joder
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Story
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rocky Ford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rocky Ford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2864, Longitude: -103.5983 In this case, the coordinates for Rocky Ford 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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |