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Nearest Communities to Bredette,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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.<1>

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


Bredette 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 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bredette. Of these communities, 16 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 Bredette (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 Bredette

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

  • Roosevelt County   (where Bredette resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Wolf Point
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bredette   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bredette.
      • Benrud ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Benrud is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benrud
      • Biem
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Biem is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biem
      • Anderson
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Anderson is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
      • Volt
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Volt is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volt
      • Chelsea
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Chelsea is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
      • Poplar
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Macon
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Macon is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macon
      • Sprole
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Sprole is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprole
      • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Brockton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Daniels County
    • County Website:   https://www.danielscountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Daniels:   Scobey
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bredette   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bredette.
      • Kahle ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Kahle is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kahle
      • Pleasant Prairie
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Pleasant Prairie is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Prairie
      • Scobey
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Flaxville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Madoc
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Madoc is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madoc
      • Navajo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Navajo is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
      • Four Buttes
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Four Buttes is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Buttes
      • Whitetail
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Julian ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Julian is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julian
      • Peerless
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • West Fork
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • West Fork is located in Daniels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fork
  • Sheridan County
  • Valley County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bredette) 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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