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Nearest Communities to Wanblee,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Wanblee is located in Jackson County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: Bennett, Haakon, Jones, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington & Todd.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wanblee. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Jackson 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 Wanblee (which is Jackson 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 Wanblee

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

  • Jackson County   (where Wanblee resides)
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Kadoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wanblee   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wanblee.
      • Long Valley
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Hisle
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Hisle is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hisle
      • Weta
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Weta is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weta
        • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
      • Potato Creek
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Potato Creek is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Creek
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
      • Kadoka Junction
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Kadoka Junction is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kadoka Junction
      • Kadoka
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Interior
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Cactus Flat
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cactus Flat is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
      • Belvidere
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Philip Junction
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Philip Junction is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philip Junction
      • Cottonwood
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Cottonwood is located in Jackson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10 people
  • Bennett County
    • County Seat for Bennett:   Martin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wanblee   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wanblee.
      • Bad Wound
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Bad Wound is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bad Wound
      • Patricia
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Patricia is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
      • Black Eyes
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Black Eyes is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eyes
      • Plenty Bears
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Plenty Bears is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plenty Bears
        • Estimated population in 2014: 109 people
      • Allen
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Blackpipe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Blackpipe is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackpipe
      • Martin
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Vetal
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Vetal is located in Bennett County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vetal
      • Tuthill
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Mellette County
  • Oglala Lakota County
  • Pennington 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wanblee) 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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