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Nearest Communities to Rousseau,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 starting from Rousseau.<1>

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

Rousseau is located in Hughes County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hughes County: Hyde, Lyman, Stanley & Sully.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rousseau. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Hughes 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 Rousseau (which is Hughes 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 Rousseau

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

  • Hughes County   (where Rousseau resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.hughescounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hughes:   Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rousseau   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rousseau.
      • Alto
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Alto is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
      • Canning
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Canning is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
      • De Grey
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • De Grey is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey
      • Blunt
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Pierre
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Gray Goose
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
      • Harrold
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Oahe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Oahe is located in Hughes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
  • Hyde County
  • Lyman County
  • Stanley County
    • County Website:   https://www.stanleycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Stanley:   Fort Pierre
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rousseau   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rousseau.
      • Fort Pierre
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Verendrye Hill
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
      • Teton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Teton is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 59 people
      • Wendte
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Wendte is located in Stanley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendte
  • Sully County

Footnotes ...

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