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Nearest Communities to Saint Lawrence,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest 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 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 west 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 Saint Lawrence.<1>

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

Saint Lawrence is located in Hand County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hand County: Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hyde, Jerauld & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Saint Lawrence. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Hand 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 Saint Lawrence (which is Hand 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 Saint Lawrence

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

  • Hand County   (where Saint Lawrence resides)
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint Lawrence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint Lawrence.
      • Miller
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Vayland
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Miller Dale Colony
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Dale Colony
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
      • Ree Heights
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Burdette
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
      • Ames
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Ames is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
      • Danforth
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
      • Polo
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
  • Beadle County
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint Lawrence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint Lawrence.
      • Wessington
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Bonilla
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
      • Wolsey
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Hitchcock
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Broadland
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Virgil
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Faulk County
    • County Seat for Faulk:   Faulkton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint Lawrence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint Lawrence.
      • Orient
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Rockham
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Zell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Zell is located in Faulk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zell
        • Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
  • Hyde County
  • Spink 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- Saint Lawrence) 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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