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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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance 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 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)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
        • Alto is located in Hughes County
      • Canning
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canning have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
        • Canning is located in Hughes County
      • De Grey
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Grey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey
        • De Grey is located in Hughes County
      • Pierre
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierre
        • Pierre is located in Hughes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,708 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pierre <4>
      • Blunt
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Gray Goose
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gray Goose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Goose
        • Gray Goose is located in Hughes County
      • Harrold
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrold have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrold
        • Harrold is located in Hughes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrold <4>
      • Oahe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oahe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
        • Oahe is located in Hughes County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
  • Hyde County
  • Lyman County
    • County Seat for Lyman:   Kennebec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rousseau   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rousseau.
      • Presho
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Presho have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presho
        • Presho is located in Lyman County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Presho <4>
      • Vivian
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vivian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
        • Vivian is located in Lyman County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 149 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vivian <4>
      • Council House
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Council House have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Council House
        • Council House is located in Lyman County
      • Lower Brule
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Brule have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Brule
        • Lower Brule is located in Lyman County
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 24 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lower Brule <4>
      • Kennebec
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Stanley County
    • 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)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
        • Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
      • Teton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Teton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teton
        • Teton is located in Stanley County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 59 people
      • Wendte
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wendte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendte
        • Wendte is located in Stanley County
  • Sully County
    • County Website:   www.sullycounty.net/
    • County Seat for Sully:   Onida
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rousseau   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rousseau.
      • Eakin
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eakin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eakin
        • Eakin is located in Sully County
      • Onida
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Okobojo
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Okobojo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okobojo
        • Okobojo is located in Sully County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Rousseau) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rousseau. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3164, Longitude: -100.0715       In this case, the coordinates for Rousseau 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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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