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Nearest Communities to Sweetland,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Please note 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Sweetland is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Hand County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hand County: Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hyde, Jerauld & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sweetland. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Hand County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Sweetland (which is Hand 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 Sweetland

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

  • Hand County   (where Sweetland resides)
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sweetland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sweetland.
      • Ames
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ames is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
      • Miller Dale Colony
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Dale Colony
      • Danforth
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
      • Miller
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Saint Lawrence
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Vayland
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Ree Heights
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Burdette
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
      • Polo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
  • Beadle County
  • Buffalo County
    • County Website:   https://buffalo.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Buffalo:   Gann Valley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sweetland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sweetland.
      • Gann Valley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Lees Corner
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Lees Corner is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees Corner
      • Shelby
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Shelby is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby
        • Estimated population in 2014: 96 people
      • Crow Creek
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Crow Creek is located in Buffalo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Creek
      • Fort Thompson
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Hyde County
  • Jerauld County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sweetland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sweetland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.