Nearest Communities to Wetonka,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wetonka, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wetonka:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast 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 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.
Wetonka is located in McPherson County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McPherson County: Dickey (ND), McIntosh (ND), Brown, Campbell & Edmunds.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wetonka. Of these communities, 42 are located in counties other than McPherson 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 Wetonka (which is McPherson 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 Wetonka
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- McPherson County (where Wetonka resides)
- County Website: https://mcpherson.sdcounties.org/
- County Seat for McPherson: Leola
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wetonka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wetonka.
- Long Lake Colony
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Long Lake Colony is located in McPherson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake Colony
- Estimated population in 2014: 332 people
- Leola
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Spring Creek Colony
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Spring Creek Colony is located in McPherson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Colony
- Population from the 2010 Census: 268 people
- Long Lake
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Long Lake is located in McPherson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
- Brown County
- County Website: https://www.brown.sd.us/
- County Seat for Brown: Aberdeen
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wetonka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wetonka.
- Bieglers First Addition
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Richmond Lake Heights Development
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Richmond
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Richmond is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
- Pleasant Vally Development
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Richmond Heights
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Richmond Heights is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Heights
- Westport
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Richfield Heights
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Richfield Heights is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield Heights
- Fisher Estates
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Fisher Estates is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Estates
- Gederos Estates
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Gederos Estates is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gederos Estates
- Estimated population in 2014: 212 people
- Barnard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Harlin Addition
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Harlin Addition is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlin Addition
- Ordway
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Ordway is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
- Estimated population in 2014: 306 people
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Aberdeen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Melrose Addition
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Melrose Addition is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Addition
- Estimated population in 2014: 221 people
- Prairie Wood Village Addition
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Prairie Wood Village Addition is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Wood Village Addition
- Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
- Frederick
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Jobee Acres
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jobee Acres is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobee Acres
- Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
- Columbia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Rudolph
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rudolph is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudolph
- Plana
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Plana is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
- Winship
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Winship is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winship
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,862 people
- Bath Corner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bath Corner is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
- Bath
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Nahon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Nahon is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nahon
- Warner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Tacoma Park
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
- Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
- Houghton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Mansfield
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- James
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- James is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Putney
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Putney is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
- Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
- Stratford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Edmunds County
- County Website: https://edmunds.sdcounties.org/
- County Seat for Edmunds: Ipswich
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wetonka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wetonka.
- Plainview Colony
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Plainview Colony is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview Colony
- Mina
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Craven Corner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Craven Corner is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven Corner
- Craven
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Craven is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven
- Ipswich
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Beebe
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Beebe is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
- Powell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Powell is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
- Roscoe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Spink County
- County Website: https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
- County Seat for Spink: Redfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wetonka ...
- Duxbury
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Duxbury is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
- Estimated population in 2014: 531 people
- Dickey County
- County Website: https://www.dickeynd.com/
- County Seat for Dickey: Ellendale (ND)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wetonka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wetonka.
- Forbes
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Ellendale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
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- Wetonka) 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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