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Nearest Communities to Anderson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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 south 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 Anderson.<1>

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

Anderson is located in Roosevelt County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roosevelt County: Daniels, McCone, Richland, Sheridan, Valley & Williams (ND).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Anderson. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Roosevelt 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 Anderson (which is Roosevelt 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 Anderson

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

  • Roosevelt County   (where Anderson resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Wolf Point
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Anderson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Anderson.
      • Biem
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Biem is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biem
      • Slab Crossing
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Slab Crossing is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Crossing
      • Brockton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Calais
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Calais is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calais
      • Boyd ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Boyd is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
      • Fort Kipp
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Kipp is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kipp
      • Sprole
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Sprole is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprole
      • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Blair
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Blair is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
      • Froid
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Froid is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Froid
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Froid <3>
      • Bredette
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Bredette is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bredette
      • Poplar
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Culbertson
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Chelsea
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Chelsea is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
        • McCabe
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Benrud ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Benrud is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benrud
        • Lanark
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Lanark is located in Roosevelt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanark
  • Daniels County
  • McCone County
  • Richland County
  • Sheridan 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- Anderson) 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.