Nearest Communities to Sheffield,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sheffield, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sheffield:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Sheffield.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sheffield is located in Beadle County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beadle County: Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn & Spink.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sheffield. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Beadle 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 Sheffield (which is Beadle 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 Sheffield
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Beadle County (where Sheffield resides)
- County Website: https://www.beadlesd.org/
- County Seat for Beadle: Huron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Cavour
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Yale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Riverside Colony
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
- Morningside
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Morningside is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
- Huron
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Pearl Creek Colony
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Creek Colony
- James Valley Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Huron Colony
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
- Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
- Broadland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Broadland is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
- Virgil
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Wolsey
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Hitchcock
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Bonilla
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Bonilla is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
- Wessington
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Clark County
- County Website: https://clark.sdcounties.org/
- County Seat for Clark: Clark
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Pitrodie ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pitrodie is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
- Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
- Carpenter
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Melham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Melham is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melham
- Carlton ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Carlton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
- Huron Colony
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Huron Colony is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
- Keefton ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Keefton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefton
- Merton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Merton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
- Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
- Willow Lake
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Success ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Success is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
- Estimated population in 2014: 6,741 people
- Jerauld County
- County Website: https://jerauldcountysd.com/
- County Seat for Jerauld: Wessington Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Alpena
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lane
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsbury County
- County Website: https://kingsburycountysd.org/
- County Seat for Kingsbury: De Smet
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Iroquois
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Osceola
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Osceola is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- Estimated population in 2014: 90 people
- Bancroft
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Bancroft is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
- Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
- Fairview ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Fairview is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Manchester
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Manchester is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
- Esmond
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Esmond is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
- Estimated population in 2014: 60 people
- De Smet
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Miner County
- County Website: https://www.minercountysd.org/
- County Seat for Miner: Howard
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Carthage
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Cloverleaf Colony
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cloverleaf Colony is located in Miner County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverleaf Colony
- Sanborn County
- County Seat for Sanborn: Woonsocket
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Woonsocket
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Forestburg
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Forestburg is located in Sanborn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestburg
- Population from the 2010 Census: 73 people
- Artesian
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Ruskin Park
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Ruskin Park is located in Sanborn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin Park
- Spink County
- County Website: https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
- County Seat for Spink: Redfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheffield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheffield.
- Bloomfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Bloomfield is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
- LaDelle
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- LaDelle is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaDelle
- Hillside Colony
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Hillside Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Colony
- Spink Colony
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Spink Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spink Colony
- Estimated population in 2014: 155 people
- Clark Colony
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Clark Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Colony
- Spottswood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Spottswood is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottswood
- Glendale Colony
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Glendale Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Colony
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sheffield) 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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