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Nearest Communities to Burnham,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>

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

Burnham is located in Hill County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hill County: Blaine, Chouteau & Liberty.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Burnham. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Hill 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 Burnham (which is Hill 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 Burnham

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

  • Hill County   (where Burnham resides)
    • County Website:   https://hillcounty.us/
    • County Seat for Hill:   Havre
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Alberta lies to the northwest and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burnham   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burnham.
      • Cypress ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Cypress is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress
      • Beaver Creek
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Beaver Creek is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
      • Fresno
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Fresno is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresno
      • Pacific Junction
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Pacific Junction is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pacific Junction
      • Herron
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Herron is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herron
      • West Havre
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • West Havre is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Havre
      • Laredo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Laredo is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laredo
      • Havre
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Kremlin
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Saddle Butte
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Saddle Butte is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Butte
      • Oscar ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Oscar is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscar
      • Hilldale Colony
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Hilldale Colony is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilldale Colony
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Saint Johns
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Saint Johns is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns
        • Azure
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • Azure is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Azure
        • Gildford
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • East End Colony
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • East End Colony is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East End Colony
        • Sangrey
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
          • Sangrey is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sangrey
        • Rocky Boy
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Rocky Boy is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Boy
        • Shambo Springs
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Shambo Springs is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shambo Springs
        • Shambo ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Shambo is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shambo
        • Parker School
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Parker School is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker School
        • Saint Pierre
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Saint Pierre is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Pierre
        • Gildford Colony
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Gildford Colony is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gildford Colony
        • Hingham
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Simpson
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Simpson is located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson
        • Rudyard
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Blaine County
  • Chouteau 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Burnham) 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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