Nearest Communities to Sulphur,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sulphur, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sulphur:
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 Sulphur.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sulphur is located in Meade County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sulphur. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Meade 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 Sulphur (which is Meade 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 Sulphur
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Meade County (where Sulphur resides)
- County Website: www.meadecounty.org/
- County Seat for Meade: Sturgis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Meade County
- Nearest Communities to Sulphur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
- Mud Butte
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Butte
- Mud Butte is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mud Butte <3>
- Fairpoint
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast) - Cedar Canyon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cedar Canyon. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Canyon
- Cedar Canyon is located in Meade County
- Stoneville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stoneville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
- Stoneville is located in Meade County
- Maurine
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - Fox Ridge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast) - Clough
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Red Owl
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
- Red Owl is located in Meade County
- Opal
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
- Opal is located in Meade County
- Estimated population in 2014: 30 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <3>
- Union Center
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Center
- Union Center is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Union Center <3>
- Enning
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enning have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enning
- Enning is located in Meade County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Enning <3>
- Volunteer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - White Owl
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Owl
- White Owl is located in Meade County
- Estimated population in 2014: 373 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White Owl <3>
- Butte County
- County Seat for Butte: Belle Fourche
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Butte County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Butte County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Butte County
- Nearest Communities to Sulphur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
- Hoover
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
- Hoover is located in Butte County
- Castle Rock
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Castle Rock. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
- Castle Rock is located in Butte County
- Empire
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Newell
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell
- Newell is located in Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 603 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newell <3>
- Vale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vale
- Vale is located in Butte County
- Estimated population in 2014: 121 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vale <3>
- Perkins County
- County Seat for Perkins: Bison
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Perkins County
- Nearest Communities to Sulphur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
- Imogene
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast) - Zeona
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zeona
- Zeona is located in Perkins County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zeona <3>
- Bixby
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
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 from Point A (ie- Sulphur) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sulphur. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.8767, Longitude: -102.9135 In this case, the coordinates for Sulphur have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |