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Nearest Communities to Clareton,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Clareton.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Clareton is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Weston County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Weston County: Custer (SD), Lawrence (SD), Pennington (SD), Campbell, Converse, Crook & Niobrara.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Clareton. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Weston County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Clareton (which is Weston 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 Clareton

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

  • Weston County   (where Clareton resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.westongov.com/
    • County Seat for Weston:   Newcastle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Clareton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Clareton.
      • Fairview
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Fairview is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Morrisey
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Morrisey is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisey
      • Pedro
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Pedro is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
      • Osage
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Clay Spur
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Clay Spur is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Spur
      • Jerome
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Jerome is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
      • Newcastle
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Hill View Heights
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Hill View Heights is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill View Heights
      • Spencer ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Spencer is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Upton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Colloid
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Colloid is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colloid
      • Bentley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Bentley is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bentley
      • Cambria ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cambria is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambria
      • Clifton ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Clifton is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
  • Converse 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Clareton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Clareton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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