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Nearest Communities to Roscoe,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Roscoe is located in Edmunds County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Edmunds County: Brown, Campbell, Faulk, McPherson, Potter, Spink & Walworth.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Roscoe. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Edmunds 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 Roscoe (which is Edmunds 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 Roscoe

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

  • Edmunds County   (where Roscoe resides)
    • County Website:   https://edmunds.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Edmunds:   Ipswich
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Roscoe   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Roscoe.
      • Beebe
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Beebe is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
      • Gretna
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Gretna is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
        • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
      • Hosmer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Loyalton
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Loyalton is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyalton
      • Ipswich
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Bowdle
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Plainview Colony
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Plainview Colony is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview Colony
      • Powell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Powell is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Craven Corner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Craven Corner is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven Corner
      • Craven
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Craven is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven
      • Mina
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • 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>
  • Faulk County
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Roscoe   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Roscoe.
      • Onaka
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Norbeck
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Norbeck is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norbeck
      • Millard
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Millard is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard
      • Wecota
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Burkmere
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Burkmere is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burkmere
      • Cresbard
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Seneca
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Faulkton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • McPherson County
    • County Website:   https://mcpherson.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for McPherson:   Leola
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Roscoe   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Roscoe.
      • Hillsview
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Hillsview is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsview
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
      • Leola
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • 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>
      • Eureka
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Long Lake Colony
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Long Lake Colony is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 332 people
      • Long Lake
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Long Lake is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
      • Wetonka
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Wetonka is located in McPherson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetonka
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
  • Potter County
  • Walworth County

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- Roscoe) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.