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Nearest Communities to White Butte,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from White Butte.<1>

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

White Butte is located in Perkins County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Perkins County: Adams (ND), Butte, Corson, Harding, Meade & Ziebach.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White Butte. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Perkins 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 White Butte (which is Perkins 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 White Butte

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

  • Perkins County   (where White Butte resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.perkinscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Perkins:   Bison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Butte   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Butte.
      • Lemmon
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Shadehill
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Summerville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Summerville is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
      • Lodgepole
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Ellingson ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Ellingson is located in Perkins County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellingson
      • Bison
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Meadow
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Corson County
  • Adams County
    • County Website:   https://www.adamscountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Adams:   Hettinger (ND)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Butte   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Butte.
      • Petrel
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Petrel is located in Adams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrel
      • Haynes
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Haynes is located in Adams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynes
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
      • North Lemmon
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • North Lemmon is located in Adams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lemmon
      • Hettinger
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Bucyrus
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Bucyrus is located in Adams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucyrus
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
      • Reeder
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Reeder is located in Adams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeder
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reeder <3>
  • Hettinger 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- White Butte) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.