Nearest Communities to Bend,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bend, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bend:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Bend.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bend is located in Sanders County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sanders County: Bonner (ID), Shoshone (ID), Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral & Missoula.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bend. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Sanders 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 Bend (which is Sanders 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 Bend
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sanders County (where Bend resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.sanders.mt.us/
- County Seat for Sanders: Thompson Falls
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bend.
- Niarada
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Niarada is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niarada
- Snider
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Snider is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snider
- Childs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Childs is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
- Talc
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Talc is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talc
- Lonepine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Belknap
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Belknap is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap
- White Pine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- White Pine is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Pine
- Ashleys Settlement ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ashleys Settlement is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashleys Settlement
- Eddy
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Eddy is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eddy
- Shannonville ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Shannonville is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannonville
- Blanchards Corner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Blanchards Corner is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanchards Corner
- Thompson Falls
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
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- Trout Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Weeksville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Weeksville is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksville
- Camas
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Camas is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camas
- Hot Springs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Larchwood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Larchwood is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larchwood
- Tuscor
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Tuscor is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuscor
- Flathead County
- County Website: https://flatheadcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Flathead: Kalispell
- Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bend.
- Yakt ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Yakt is located in Flathead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yakt
- Pine Prairie
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Prairie is located in Flathead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Prairie
- Marion
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Hog Heaven ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Hog Heaven is located in Flathead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Heaven
- Kila
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lake County
- County Website: https://www.lakemt.gov/
- County Seat for Lake: Polson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bend.
- Lake Mary Ronan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Lake Mary Ronan is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Mary Ronan
- Meltons
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Meltons is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meltons
- Sipes
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Sipes is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sipes
- Lincoln County
- County Website: https://lincolncountymt.us/
- County Seat for Lincoln: Libby
- Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bend.
- Happys Inn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Happys Inn is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happys Inn
- Manicke ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Manicke is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manicke
- Scotchville ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Scotchville is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotchville
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bend) 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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