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Nearest Communities to Swett,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Swett is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Bennett County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bennett County: Cherry (NE), Jackson, Oglala Lakota & Todd.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Swett. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Bennett 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 Swett (which is Bennett 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 Swett

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

  • Bennett County   (where Swett resides)
    • County Seat for Bennett:   Martin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swett   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swett.
      • Allen
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Plenty Bears
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plenty Bears have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plenty Bears
        • Plenty Bears is located in Bennett County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 109 people
      • Martin
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Bad Wound
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bad Wound have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bad Wound
        • Bad Wound is located in Bennett County
      • Black Eyes
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Eyes have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eyes
        • Black Eyes is located in Bennett County
      • Tuthill
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Patricia
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Patricia have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
        • Patricia is located in Bennett County
      • Vetal
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vetal
        • Vetal is located in Bennett County
  • Jackson County
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swett   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swett.
      • Hisle
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hisle have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hisle
        • Hisle is located in Jackson County
      • Potato Creek
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Creek
        • Potato Creek is located in Jackson County
      • Long Valley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Valley
        • Long Valley is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Long Valley <4>
  • Oglala Lakota County
    • County Website:   oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swett   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swett.
      • Batesland
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Batesland have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batesland
        • Batesland is located in Oglala Lakota County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Batesland <4>
      • Wakpamani
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wakpamani have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakpamani
        • Wakpamani is located in Oglala Lakota County
      • Kyle
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Porcupine
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Denby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denby
        • Denby is located in Oglala Lakota County
      • Wounded Knee
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Manderson - White Horse Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Manderson - White Horse Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manderson - White Horse Creek
        • Manderson - White Horse Creek is located in Oglala Lakota County
      • Manderson
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Sharps Corner
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharps Corner
        • Sharps Corner is located in Oglala Lakota County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 77 people
  • Cherry County
    • County Website:   www.co.cherry.ne.us/
    • County Seat for Cherry:   Valentine (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swett   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swett.
      • Irwin
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irwin have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
        • Irwin is located in Cherry County (NE)
      • Leat
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leat have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leat
        • Leat is located in Cherry County (NE)
      • Merriman
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bayonne
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bayonne have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayonne
        • Bayonne is located in Cherry County (NE)
      • Eli
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eli have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli
        • Eli is located in Cherry County (NE)
  • Sheridan County
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Rushville (NE)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Swett   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Swett.
      • Albany ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Albany have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany
        • Albany is located in Sheridan County (NE)
      • Gordon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
        • Gordon is located in Sheridan County (NE)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,486 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gordon <4>

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 from Point A (ie- Swett) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Swett. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1728, Longitude: -101.9501    
<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 Swett, 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.
<5>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.
<6>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.




 

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