Nearest Communities to Box Elder,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Box Elder, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Box Elder:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Box Elder.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Box Elder is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Phillips County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Box Elder. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Box Elder (which is Phillips 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 Box Elder
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Phillips County (where Box Elder resides)
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- Nearest Communities to Box Elder ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Box Elder.
- Sun Prairie
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Prairie have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
- Sun Prairie is located in Phillips County
- First Creek ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for First Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Creek
- First Creek is located in Phillips County
- Content
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast) - Dryer Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dryer Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryer Place
- Dryer Place is located in Phillips County
- X Crossing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for X Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for X Crossing
- X Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Regina ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Old Whitcomb Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Whitcomb Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Whitcomb Place
- Old Whitcomb Place is located in Phillips County
- Leedy ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Fourchette ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fourchette have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourchette
- Fourchette is located in Phillips County
- Legg ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest) - Midale
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Phillips
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Garfield County
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- Nearest Communities to Box Elder ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Box Elder.
- Metersville ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metersville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metersville
- Metersville is located in Garfield County
- Hazny ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Valley County
- County Seat for Valley: Glasgow
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Valley County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Valley County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Valley County
- Nearest Communities to Box Elder ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Box Elder.
- Larb ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Murray Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Murray Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray Place
- Murray Place is located in Valley County
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- Box Elder) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Box Elder. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8856, Longitude: -107.6840 In this case, the coordinates for Box Elder have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Box Elder, 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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |