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Nearest Communities to Wasta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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 Wasta.<1>

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

Wasta 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 Wasta. Of these communities, 10 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 Wasta (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 Wasta

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

  • Pennington County   (where Wasta resides)
    • County Website:   https://pennco.org/
    • County Seat for Pennington:   Rapid City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wasta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wasta.
      • Owanka
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Wicksville
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Wicksville is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicksville
      • Wall
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Wall is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 885 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wall <3>
      • Quinn
        (16 miles [25.7 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>
      • Creston ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Creston is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
      • Creighton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Mawl Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Mawl Springs is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mawl Springs
      • New Underwood
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Scenic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Farmingdale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Farmingdale is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmingdale
        • Estimated population in 2014: 10 people
      • Imlay
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Imlay is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
        • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
      • Conata
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Conata is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conata
      • Caputa
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Pedro
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Pedro is located in Pennington County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
  • Custer County
  • Haakon County
  • Jackson County
  • Meade County
    • County Website:   https://www.meadecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Meade:   Sturgis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wasta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wasta.
      • Elm Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Dalzell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Dalzell is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalzell
      • Viewfield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Viewfield is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewfield
        • Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
      • Boneita Springs
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Boneita Springs is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneita Springs
      • Haydraw
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Haydraw is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haydraw
      • Bend
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Bend is located in Meade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wasta) 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.