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Nearest Communities to Wall,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Wall.<1>

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

Wall is located in Pennington County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pennington County: Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota & Weston (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wall. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Pennington 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 Wall (which is Pennington 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 Wall

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

  • Pennington County   (where Wall resides)
    • County Website:   https://pennco.org/
    • County Seat for Pennington:   Rapid City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wall   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wall.
      • Quinn
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Quinn is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinn
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinn <3>
      • Wasta
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Wasta is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasta
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wasta <3>
      • Owanka
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Creighton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Conata
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Conata is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conata
      • Wicksville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Wicksville is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicksville
      • Imlay
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Imlay is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
        • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
      • Scenic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Creston ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Creston is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
      • Mawl Springs
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Mawl Springs is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mawl Springs
      • Pedro
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Pedro is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
      • New Underwood
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Haakon County
  • Jackson County
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wall   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wall.
      • Cottonwood
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
      • Cactus Flat
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
      • Interior
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Philip Junction
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
      • Weta
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Weta is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weta
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
  • Meade County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wall) 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.