Nearest Communities to Chester,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Chester, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Chester:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Chester.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Chester is located in Liberty County and is the County Seat.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Liberty County: Chouteau, Hill, Pondera & Toole.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Chester. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Liberty 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 Chester (which is Liberty 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 Chester
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Liberty County (where Chester resides)
- County Seat for Liberty: Chester
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Liberty County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Liberty County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Liberty County
- Nearest Communities to Chester ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Chester.
- Tiber
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Buelow
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast) - Joplin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joplin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joplin
- Joplin is located in Liberty County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Joplin <4>
- George ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Lothair
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west) - Tiber Dam Camp
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tiber Dam Camp have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp
- Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
- Hay Coulee ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hay Coulee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Coulee
- Hay Coulee is located in Liberty County
- Eagle Creek Colony
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Creek Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Creek Colony
- Eagle Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
- Hill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Selma ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Alma ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Riverview Colony
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverview Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Colony
- Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County
- Sage Creek Colony
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sage Creek Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Creek Colony
- Sage Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
- Old Banks Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Banks Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Banks Place
- Old Banks Place is located in Liberty County
- Whitlash
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitlash
- Whitlash is located in Liberty County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitlash <4>
- Selma ‑ Historic
- Hill County
- County Website: www.co.hill.mt.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 ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Hill County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Hill County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Hill County
- Nearest Communities to Chester ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Chester.
- Inverness
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inverness have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inverness
- Inverness is located in Hill County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inverness <4>
- Iverness
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Rudyard
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rudyard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudyard
- Rudyard is located in Hill County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rudyard <4>
- Brinkman ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast) - Hingham
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hingham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hingham
- Hingham is located in Hill County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hingham <4>
- Minneota ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Gildford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gildford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gildford
- Gildford is located in Hill County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gildford <4>
- Toole County
- County Seat for Toole: Shelby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Toole County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Toole County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Toole County
- Nearest Communities to Chester ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Chester.
- Galata
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galata
- Galata is located in Toole County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Galata <4>
- Devon
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
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- Chester) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5112, Longitude: -110.9666 In this case, the coordinates for Chester have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |