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Nearest Communities to Spink Colony,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Spink Colony.<1>

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

Spink Colony is located in Spink County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Spink County: Beadle, Brown, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk & Hand.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spink Colony. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Spink 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 Spink Colony (which is Spink 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 Spink Colony

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

  • Spink County   (where Spink Colony resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spink Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spink Colony.
      • Glendale Colony
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Glendale Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Colony
      • Crandon
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Crandon is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
      • Frankfort
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • LaDelle
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • LaDelle is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaDelle
      • Tulare
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Hillside Colony
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Hillside Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Colony
      • Bloomfield
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bloomfield is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Spottswood
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Spottswood is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottswood
      • Doland
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Redfield
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Clark Colony
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Clark Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Colony
      • Ashton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Turton
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Athol
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Athol is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
        • Gallup
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Gallup is located in Spink County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup
        • Brentford
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Conde
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Mellette
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Beadle County
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spink Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spink Colony.
      • Hitchcock
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Huron Colony
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
      • Bonilla
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
      • Broadland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Riverside Colony
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • Wolsey
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • James Valley Junction
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Sheffield
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Huron
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Morningside
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Yale
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Cavour
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Wessington
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://clark.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Clark
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spink Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spink Colony.
      • Huron Colony
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Huron Colony is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
      • Carpenter
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Raymond
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Keefton ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Keefton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefton
      • Merton ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Merton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
        • Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
      • Carlton ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Carlton is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
      • Pitrodie ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Pitrodie is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
        • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
      • Clark
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Gros ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Gros is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gros
      • Julian ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Julian is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
  • Faulk County
  • Hand County
  • Kingsbury 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Spink Colony) 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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