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Nearest Communities to West Fork,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from West Fork.<1>

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

West Fork is located in Haakon County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Haakon County: Dewey, Jackson, Jones, Meade, Pennington, Stanley & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of West Fork. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Haakon 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 West Fork (which is Haakon 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 West Fork

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

  • Haakon County   (where West Fork resides)
    • County Website:   https://haakon.southdakotadirectors.com/
    • County Seat for Haakon:   Philip
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to West Fork   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from West Fork.
      • Milesville
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Billsburg
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Billsburg is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsburg
      • Kirley
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Kirley is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirley
      • Elbon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Elbon is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbon
      • Hartley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Hartley is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley
        • Estimated population in 2014: 129 people
      • Moenville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Moenville is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moenville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 18 people
      • Lucerne
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Lucerne is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Ottumwa
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Ottumwa is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottumwa
      • Elevenmile Corner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Elevenmile Corner is located in Haakon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevenmile Corner
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Hilland
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Hilland is located in Haakon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilland
        • Dowling ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Dowling is located in Haakon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
        • Powell
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Powell is located in Haakon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Philip
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Nowlin
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Nowlin is located in Haakon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nowlin
        • Grindstone
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Grindstone is located in Haakon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grindstone
  • Meade County
  • Pennington County
  • Stanley County
  • Ziebach County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- West Fork) 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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