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Nearest Communities to Virgil,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Virgil.<1>

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

Virgil is located in Beadle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beadle County: Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Virgil. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Beadle 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 Virgil (which is Beadle 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 Virgil

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

  • Beadle County   (where Virgil resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Virgil   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Virgil.
      • Wolsey
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • James Valley Junction
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Huron
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Morningside
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Broadland
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Wessington
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Cavour
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Riverside Colony
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • Sheffield
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Bonilla
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
      • Huron Colony
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
      • Hitchcock
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Yale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Pearl Creek Colony
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Creek Colony
  • Aurora County
  • Hand County
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Virgil   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Virgil.
      • Danforth
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
      • Vayland
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
      • Saint Lawrence
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jerauld County
  • Kingsbury County
  • Sanborn County
    • County Seat for Sanborn:   Woonsocket
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Virgil   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Virgil.
      • Woonsocket
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Cuthbert
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Cuthbert is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
      • Forestburg
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Forestburg is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestburg
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 73 people
      • Ruskin Park
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ruskin Park is located in Sanborn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin Park
      • Letcher
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Spink County

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- Virgil) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.