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

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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 west 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 White River.<1>

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

White River is located in Mellette County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mellette County: Bennett, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Todd & Tripp.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White River. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Mellette 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 River (which is Mellette 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 River

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

  • Mellette County   (where White River resides)
    • County Website:   https://mellettecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Mellette:   White River
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White River   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White River.
      • Cedar Butte
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Cedar Butte is located in Mellette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Butte
      • Wood
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Wood is located in Mellette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wood <3>
      • Badnation
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Badnation is located in Mellette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badnation
      • Corn Creek
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Corn Creek is located in Mellette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corn Creek
      • Mosher
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Mosher is located in Mellette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosher
        • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
      • Norris
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Bennett County
  • Jackson County
  • Jones County
    • County Seat for Jones:   Murdo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White River   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White River.
      • Westover ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Westover is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westover
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Murdo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Okaton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Draper
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Todd County
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White River   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White River.
      • Mission
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Soldier Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Soldier Creek is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier Creek
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 227 people
      • Antelope
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Antelope is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • White Horse
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • White Horse is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
      • Okreek
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Parmelee
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Rosebud
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Two Strike
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Two Strike is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Strike
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 209 people
      • Hidden Timber
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Hidden Timber is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Timber
        • Estimated population in 2014: 45 people
      • Olsonville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Olsonville is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsonville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people
      • Saint Francis
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Tripp County

Footnotes ...

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