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Nearest Communities to Castle Rock,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Castle Rock.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Castle Rock is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Rosebud County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rosebud County: Big Horn, Custer, Garfield, Musselshell, Petroleum, Powder River, Treasure & Yellowstone.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Castle Rock. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Rosebud 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 Castle Rock (which is Rosebud 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 Castle Rock

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

  • Rosebud County   (where Castle Rock resides)
    • County Website:   https://rosebudcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Rosebud:   Forsyth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Castle Rock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Castle Rock.
      • Colstrip
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Hopsonville ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Hopsonville is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
      • Saints Rest ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Saints Rest is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saints Rest
      • Jimtown
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jimtown is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
      • Lame Deer
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Lee ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Lee is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
      • Wood Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Wood Place is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Place
      • Signal Butte ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Signal Butte is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
      • Sabra ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Sabra is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabra
      • Howard ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Howard is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
      • Nichols
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Nichols is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
      • Crain Place
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Crain Place is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crain Place
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Brandenberg
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Brandenberg is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandenberg
        • Forsyth
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Cold Spring
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Cold Spring is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
        • Finch
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Finch is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
        • Porcupine ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Porcupine is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porcupine
        • Orinoco
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Orinoco is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orinoco
  • Big Horn County
    • County Website:   https://www.bighorncountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Big Horn:   Hardin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Castle Rock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Castle Rock.
      • Sarpy ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Sarpy is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarpy
      • McRae ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • McRae is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRae
      • Muddy
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Muddy is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy
      • Busby
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Treasure 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- Castle Rock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Castle Rock, 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.