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Nearest Communities to Summit,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.<1>

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

Summit is located in Roberts County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roberts County: Big Stone (MN), Traverse (MN), Richland (ND), Day, Grant & Marshall.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 52 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Summit. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Roberts 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 Summit (which is Roberts 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 Summit

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

  • Roberts County   (where Summit resides)
    • County Website:   https://robertscosd.gov/
    • County Seat for Roberts:   Sisseton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Summit   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
      • Ortley
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Rudebusch Corner
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Rudebusch Corner is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudebusch Corner
      • Spring Grove
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Spring Grove is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
        • Estimated population in 2014: 125 people
      • Wilmot
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Corona
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Peever Flats
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Peever Flats is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peever Flats
      • Peever
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Goodwill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Goodwill is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwill
        • Estimated population in 2014: 876 people
      • Hartford Beach
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Hartford Beach is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford Beach
        • Estimated population in 2014: 126 people
      • Hiawatha Beach
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Hiawatha Beach is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiawatha Beach
      • Madsen Beach
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Madsen Beach is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madsen Beach
      • South Dakota Park
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • South Dakota Park is located in Roberts County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dakota Park
        • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
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        • Linden Beach
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Linden Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden Beach
        • Shady Beach
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Shady Beach is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Beach
        • Schmidt Landing
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Schmidt Landing is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schmidt Landing
        • Sisseton
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Valley View Estates
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Valley View Estates is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View Estates
        • Long Hollow Housing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Long Hollow Housing is located in Roberts County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Hollow Housing
          • Population from the 2010 Census: 192 people
  • Codington County
    • County Website:   https://www.codington.org/
    • County Seat for Codington:   Watertown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Summit   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
      • South Shore
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Waverly
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Rauville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Rauville is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 292 people
      • Florence
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • North Shore
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • North Shore is located in Codington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shore
      • Wallace
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Watertown
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Kranzburg
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Day County
  • Deuel County
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://grantcounty.sd.gov/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Milbank
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Summit   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
      • Marvin
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Twin Brooks
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Stockholm
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Milbank
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Troy
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Troy is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
      • Strandburg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • LaBolt
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Big Stone City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Albee
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Albee is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albee
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
      • Revillo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Marshall County
  • Big Stone County
    • County Website:   https://bigstonecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Big Stone:   Ortonville (MN)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Summit   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
      • Bonanza Grove
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Bonanza Grove is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza Grove
      • Foster
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Foster is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
      • Yankeetown
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Yankeetown is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankeetown
      • Beardsley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Lagoona Beach
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Lagoona Beach is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagoona Beach
      • Ortonville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Cashtown
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Cashtown is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cashtown
      • Barry
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Barry is located in Big Stone County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barry
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
  • Traverse County

Footnotes ...

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