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Nearest Communities to Watertown,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>

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

Watertown is located in Codington County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Codington County: Clark, Day, Deuel, Grant & Hamlin.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 50 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Watertown. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than Codington 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 Watertown (which is Codington 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 Watertown

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

  • Codington County   (where Watertown resides)
    • County Website:   www.codington.org/
    • County Seat for Codington:   Watertown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Watertown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Watertown.
      • Foley
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foley
        • Foley is located in Codington County
      • Rauville
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rauville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauville
        • Rauville is located in Codington County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 292 people
      • North Shore
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Shore have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shore
        • North Shore is located in Codington County
      • Appleby
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Kampeska
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Kranzburg
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kranzburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kranzburg
        • Kranzburg is located in Codington County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 176 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kranzburg <4>
      • Waverly
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Grover
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grover have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover
        • Grover is located in Codington County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 171 people
      • Florence
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florence have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Florence is located in Codington County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Florence <4>
      • South Shore
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Henry
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Wallace
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
        • Wallace is located in Codington County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wallace <4>
  • Brookings County
  • Clark County
  • Deuel County
    • County Seat for Deuel:   Clear Lake
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Watertown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Watertown.
      • Goodwin
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodwin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin
        • Goodwin is located in Deuel County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 150 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodwin <4>
      • Bemis
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Altamont
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Altamont have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
        • Altamont is located in Deuel County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
      • Tunerville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tunerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunerville
        • Tunerville is located in Deuel County
        • Estimated population in 2014: 218 people
      • Clear Lake
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Moritz
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Brandt
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brandt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandt
        • Brandt is located in Deuel County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brandt <4>
      • Johnsonville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Grant County
    • County Seat for Grant:   Milbank
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Watertown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Watertown.
      • Troy
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Troy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
        • Troy is located in Grant County
      • Strandburg
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Stockholm
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stockholm have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockholm
        • Stockholm is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stockholm <4>
      • La Bolt
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Bolt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Bolt
        • La Bolt is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
      • LaBolt
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Marvin
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Twin Brooks
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Revillo
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Revillo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Revillo
        • Revillo is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Revillo <4>
      • Albee
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Hamlin County
  • Kingsbury County
  • Roberts County
    • County Seat for Roberts:   Sisseton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Watertown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Watertown.
      • Summit
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summit have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
        • Summit is located in Roberts County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 288 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Summit <4>
      • Ortley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ortley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortley
        • Ortley is located in Roberts County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ortley <4>

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Watertown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Watertown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9011, Longitude: -97.1057    
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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