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Nearest Communities to Wood,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Please note 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.

Wood is located in Mellette County.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wood. Of these communities, 19 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 Wood (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 Wood

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

  • Mellette County   (where Wood resides)
  • Jones County
    • County Seat for Jones:   Murdo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wood.
      • Westover ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Westover is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westover
        • Estimated population in 2014: 6 people
      • Draper
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Murdo
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Todd County
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wood.
      • Okreek
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • White Horse
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • White Horse is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
      • Antelope
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Antelope is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • Mission
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Hidden Timber
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Hidden Timber is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Timber
        • Estimated population in 2014: 45 people
      • Soldier Creek
        (23 miles [37 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
      • Olsonville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Olsonville is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsonville
        • Estimated population in 2014: 72 people
      • Rosebud
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Two Strike
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Two Strike is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Strike
        • Population from the 2010 Census: 209 people
      • Parmelee
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Lakeview
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Lakeview is located in Todd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Estimated population in 2014: 799 people
  • 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wood) 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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