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Nearest Communities to Rudolph,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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


Rudolph 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 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rudolph. Of these communities, 22 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 Rudolph (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 Rudolph

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

  • Brown County   (where Rudolph resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brown.sd.us/
    • County Seat for Brown:   Aberdeen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rudolph   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudolph.
      • Warner
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Nahon
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Nahon is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nahon
      • Mansfield
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Aberdeen
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Melrose Addition
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Melrose Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Addition
        • Estimated population in 2014: 221 people
      • Harlin Addition
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Harlin Addition is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlin Addition
      • Jobee Acres
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Jobee Acres is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobee Acres
        • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
      • Stratford
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Fisher Estates
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Fisher Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Estates
      • Gederos Estates
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Gederos Estates is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gederos Estates
        • Estimated population in 2014: 212 people
      • Pleasant Vally Development
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Richfield Heights
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Richfield Heights is located in Brown County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield Heights
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        • Richmond Heights
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
          • Richmond Heights is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Heights
        • Richmond
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Richmond is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
        • Bath Corner
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Bath Corner is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
        • Prairie Wood Village Addition
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • 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
        • Richmond Lake Heights Development
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Bath
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bieglers First Addition
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Plana
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Plana is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
        • Ordway
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Ordway is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
          • Estimated population in 2014: 306 people
        • James
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • James is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
        • Randolph
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Randolph is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
        • Tacoma Park
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
          • Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
        • Westport
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Ferney
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Columbia
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Groton
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Verdon
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Verdon is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdon
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 5 people
        • Putney
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Putney is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
          • Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
        • Barnard
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Huffton
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Huffton is located in Brown County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffton
          • Estimated population in 2014: 316 people
  • Day County
  • Edmunds County
    • County Website:   https://edmunds.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Edmunds:   Ipswich
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rudolph   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudolph.
      • Mina
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • 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
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Craven Corner is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven Corner
      • Craven
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Craven is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven
      • Ipswich
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Powell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Powell is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Plainview Colony
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Plainview Colony is located in Edmunds County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview Colony
  • Faulk County
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rudolph   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudolph.
      • Chelsea
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Chelsea is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
      • Cresbard
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Devoe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Devoe is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 23 people
      • Wecota
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • McPherson County
  • Spink County
    • County Website:   https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rudolph   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudolph.
      • Duxbury
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Duxbury is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
        • Estimated population in 2014: 531 people
      • Mellette
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Northville
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Brentford
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gallup
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Gallup is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup
      • Athol
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Athol is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
      • Ashton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Conde
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Turton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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 from Point A (ie- Rudolph) 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.