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Nearest Communities to Circle,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.


Circle is located in McCone County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McCone County: Dawson, Garfield, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Circle. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than McCone 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 Circle (which is McCone 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 Circle

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

  • McCone County   (where Circle resides)
    • County Website:   https://mcconecountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for McCone:   Circle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Circle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Circle.
      • Lost Creek ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Lost Creek is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek
      • Redwater ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Redwater is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
      • Brockway
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Hamblin ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Hamblin is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamblin
      • Watkins
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Watkins is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watkins
      • Weldon
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Weldon is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weldon
      • Rodgers Hill
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Rodgers Hill is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodgers Hill
      • White ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • White is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
      • Coal Creek ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Coal Creek is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Creek
      • Prairie Elk ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Prairie Elk is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Elk
      • Paris ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Paris is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paris
      • Presserville ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Presserville is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presserville
      • Sand Creek ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Sand Creek is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Creek
      • Vida
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://dawsoncountymontana.org/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Glendive
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Circle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Circle.
      • Corral Creek ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Corral Creek is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corral Creek
      • Mink ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Mink is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink
      • Paxton ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Paxton is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton
      • Union ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Union is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
      • Lindsay
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Richey
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Prairie County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Circle) 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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