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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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance 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:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sulphur   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
      • Mud Butte
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Fairpoint
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Fairpoint is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
      • Cedar Canyon
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Cedar Canyon is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Canyon
      • Stoneville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Stoneville is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneville
      • Maurine
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Maurine is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
      • Fox Ridge
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Fox Ridge is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Ridge
      • Clough
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Clough is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clough
      • Red Owl
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Red Owl is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
      • Opal
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Union Center
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Enning
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Volunteer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Volunteer is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volunteer
      • White Owl
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Butte County
    • County Website:   https://www.buttesd.org/
    • County Seat for Butte:   Belle Fourche
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sulphur   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
      • Hoover
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Hoover is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
      • Castle Rock
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Castle Rock is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
      • Empire
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Empire is located in Butte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
      • Newell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Vale
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Perkins County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sulphur) 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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