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Nearest Communities to Wessington,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Wessington.<1>

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

Wessington is primarily located in Beadle County. A portion of Wessington extends into Hand County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beadle County: Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn & Spink.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wessington. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Beadle 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 Wessington (which is Beadle 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 Wessington

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

  • Beadle County   (where Wessington resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.beadlesd.org/
    • County Seat for Beadle:   Huron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wessington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wessington.
      • Wolsey
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Bonilla
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Bonilla is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonilla
      • Broadland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Broadland is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadland
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
      • Virgil
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hitchcock
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • James Valley Junction
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Huron
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Huron is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huron <3>
      • Huron Colony
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
      • Morningside
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Morningside is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside
      • Riverside Colony
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
      • Sheffield
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Sheffield is located in Beadle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
  • Faulk County
  • Hand County
    • County Website:   https://hand.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Hand:   Miller
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wessington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wessington.
      • Vayland
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Vayland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vayland
      • Saint Lawrence
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Miller
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Danforth
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Danforth is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danforth
      • Sweetland ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Sweetland is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland
      • Burdette
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Burdette is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdette
      • Miller Dale Colony
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Miller Dale Colony is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Dale Colony
      • Florence ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Florence is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Estimated population in 2014: 374 people
      • Ames
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Ames is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ames
      • Ree Heights
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Polo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Polo is located in Hand County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo
        • Estimated population in 2014: 227 people
  • Hyde County
  • Jerauld County
  • Spink County
    • County Website:   https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
    • County Seat for Spink:   Redfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wessington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wessington.
      • Spottswood
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Spottswood is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottswood
      • Tulare
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Crandon
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Crandon is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
      • Spink Colony
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Spink Colony is located in Spink County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spink Colony
        • Estimated population in 2014: 155 people
      • Redfield
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

Footnotes ...

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