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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 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.

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 Website:   https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Liberty:   Chester
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Chester   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chester.
      • Tiber
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Tiber is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber
      • Buelow
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Buelow is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buelow
      • Joplin
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • George ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • George is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for George
      • Lothair
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Lothair is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lothair
      • Tiber Dam Camp
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp
      • Hay Coulee ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Hay Coulee is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Coulee
      • Eagle Creek Colony
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Eagle Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Creek Colony
      • Hill
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Hill is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Selma ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Selma is located in Liberty County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
        • Alma ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Alma is located in Liberty County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
        • Riverview Colony
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Colony
        • Sage Creek Colony
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Sage Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Creek Colony
        • Old Banks Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Old Banks Place is located in Liberty County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Banks Place
        • Whitlash
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hill County
    • 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 Chester   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Chester.
      • Inverness
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Iverness
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Iverness is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iverness
      • Rudyard
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Brinkman ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Brinkman is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
      • Hingham
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Minneota ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Minneota is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minneota
      • Gildford
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Toole 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- Chester) 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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