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Nearest Communities to Soldier Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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

Soldier Creek is located in Todd County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Todd County: Cherry (NE), Bennett, Mellette & Tripp.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Soldier Creek. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Todd 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 Soldier Creek (which is Todd 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 Soldier Creek

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

  • Todd County   (where Soldier Creek resides)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Soldier Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Soldier Creek.
      • Rosebud
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Two Strike
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Two Strike is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Strike
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 209 people
      • Parmelee
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Mission
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Saint Francis
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Antelope
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Antelope is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • White Horse
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • White Horse is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
      • Spring Creek
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Spring Creek is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
        • Estimated population in 2014: 122 people
      • Lakeview
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Lakeview is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 799 people
      • Olsonville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Olsonville is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsonville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people
      • Hidden Timber
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Hidden Timber is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Timber
        • Estimated population in 2014: 45 people
      • Okreek
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Littleburg
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Littleburg is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleburg
  • Bennett County
    • County Seat for Bennett:   Martin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Soldier Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Soldier Creek.
      • Blackpipe
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Blackpipe is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackpipe
      • Harrington
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Harrington is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrington
      • Vetal
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Vetal is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vetal
  • Mellette County
  • Cherry County

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- Soldier Creek) 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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