Nearest Communities to Willow Lake,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Willow Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Willow Lake:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Willow Lake.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Willow Lake is located in Clark County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clark County: Beadle, Codington, Day, Hamlin, Kingsbury & Spink.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willow Lake. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than Clark 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 Willow Lake (which is Clark 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 Willow Lake
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Clark County (where Willow Lake resides)
- County Website: https://clark.sdcounties.org/
- County Seat for Clark: Clark
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Melham
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Melham is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melham
- Success ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Success is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
- Estimated population in 2014: 6,741 people
- Vienna
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Pitrodie ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Pitrodie is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitrodie
- Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
- Naples
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Naples is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples
- Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
- Carlton ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Carlton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
- Keefton ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Keefton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefton
- Carpenter
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Merton ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Merton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
- Estimated population in 2014: 55 people
- Huron Colony
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Huron Colony is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
- Clark
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Elrod
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Elrod is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elrod
- Estimated population in 2014: 92 people
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- Garden City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Raymond
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Julian ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Julian is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
- Lily ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lily is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
- Beadle County
- County Website: https://www.beadlesd.org/
- County Seat for Beadle: Huron
- Genealogy Websites ...
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- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Yale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pearl Creek Colony
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Pearl Creek Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Creek Colony
- Cavour
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Sheffield
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Sheffield is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
- Riverside Colony
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Riverside Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Colony
- Huron Colony
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Huron Colony is located in Beadle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron Colony
- Estimated population in 2014: 403 people
- Brookings County
- County Website: https://www.brookingscountysd.gov/
- County Seat for Brookings: Brookings
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- Arlington Beach
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Arlington Beach is located in Brookings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington Beach
- Codington County
- County Website: https://www.codington.org/
- County Seat for Codington: Watertown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Henry
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Grover
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Grover is located in Codington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover
- Estimated population in 2014: 171 people
- Kampeska
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Kampeska is located in Codington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kampeska
- Estimated population in 2014: 331 people
- Foley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Foley is located in Codington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foley
- North Shore
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- North Shore is located in Codington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shore
- Hamlin County
- County Website: https://hamlinco.us/
- County Seat for Hamlin: Hayti
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Bryant
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Hazel
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hayti
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Lake Norden
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Thomas
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Thomas is located in Hamlin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
- Estimated population in 2014: 290 people
- Alsville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Alsville is located in Hamlin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alsville
- Kones Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Kones Corner is located in Hamlin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kones Corner
- Stone Bridge
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Stone Bridge is located in Hamlin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Bridge
- Estimated population in 2014: 105 people
- Castlewood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Kingsbury County
- County Website: https://kingsburycountysd.org/
- County Seat for Kingsbury: De Smet
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Bancroft
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bancroft is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
- Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
- Erwin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Osceola
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Osceola is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- Estimated population in 2014: 90 people
- De Smet
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Fairview ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Fairview is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Manchester
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Manchester is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Estimated population in 2014: 65 people
- Iroquois
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Preston
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Badger
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Esmond
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Esmond is located in Kingsbury County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
- Estimated population in 2014: 60 people
- Hetland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Arlington
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Spink County
- County Website: https://www.spinkcounty-sd.org/
- County Seat for Spink: Redfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Lake.
- Clark Colony
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Clark Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Colony
- Hillside Colony
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Hillside Colony is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Colony
- Bloomfield
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Bloomfield is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
- LaDelle
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- LaDelle is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaDelle
- Doland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Willow Lake) 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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