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Nearest Communities to Riverview,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

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

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


Riverview is located in Niobrara County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Niobrara County: Sioux (NE), Custer (SD), Fall River (SD), Converse, Goshen, Platte & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Riverview. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Niobrara 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 Riverview (which is Niobrara 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 Riverview

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

  • Niobrara County   (where Riverview resides)
  • Weston County
    • County Website:   https://www.westongov.com/
    • County Seat for Weston:   Newcastle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview.
      • Morrisey
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Morrisey is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisey
      • Dakoming
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Dakoming is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakoming
      • Clifton ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Clifton is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
      • Spencer ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Spencer is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Hill View Heights
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Hill View Heights is located in Weston County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill View Heights
      • Newcastle
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercountysd.com/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Custer (SD)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview.
      • Dewey
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Dewey is located in Custer County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
      • Ivanhoe ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Ivanhoe is located in Custer County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe
        • Estimated population in 2014: 144 people
      • Argyle
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Argyle is located in Custer County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
  • Fall River County
    • County Website:   https://fallriver.sdcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Fall River:   Hot Springs (SD)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview.
      • Burdock
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Burdock is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdock
      • Marietta
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Marietta is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
      • Dennis
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Dennis is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
      • Dudley
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Dudley is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
      • Edgemont
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Edgemont is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 718 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edgemont <3>
      • Igloo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Igloo is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igloo
      • Provo
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Provo is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provo
        • Estimated population in 2014: 32 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Provo <3>
      • Minnekahta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Minnekahta is located in Fall River County (SD)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnekahta

Footnotes ...

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