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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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

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.

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:   www.co.pennington.sd.us/
    • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wicksville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicksville
        • Wicksville is located in Pennington County
      • Wall
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wall have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall
        • Wall is located in Pennington County
        • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quinn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinn
        • Quinn is located in Pennington County
        • 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)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
        • Creston is located in Pennington County
      • Creighton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Mawl Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mawl Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mawl Springs
        • Mawl Springs is located in Pennington County
      • New Underwood
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Underwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Underwood
        • New Underwood is located in Pennington County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 679 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Underwood <3>
      • Scenic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Farmingdale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farmingdale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmingdale
        • Farmingdale is located in Pennington County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 10 people
      • Imlay
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Imlay have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
        • Imlay is located in Pennington County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
      • Conata
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conata have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conata
        • Conata is located in Pennington County
      • Caputa
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Pedro
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pedro have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
        • Pedro is located in Pennington County
  • Custer County
  • Haakon County
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wasta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wasta.
      • Grindstone
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grindstone have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
        • Grindstone is located in Haakon County
      • Dowling ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dowling have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
        • Dowling is located in Haakon County
  • Jackson County
  • Meade County
    • County Website:   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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dalzell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalzell
        • Dalzell is located in Meade County
      • Viewfield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Viewfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewfield
        • Viewfield is located in Meade County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
      • Boneita Springs
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boneita Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneita Springs
        • Boneita Springs is located in Meade County
      • Haydraw
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haydraw have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haydraw
        • Haydraw is located in Meade County
      • Bend
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Bend is located in Meade County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Wasta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wasta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0692, Longitude: -102.4463       In this case, the coordinates for Wasta have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<4>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.




 

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