Nearest Communities to Colony Bay,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Colony Bay, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Colony Bay:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Colony Bay.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Colony Bay is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Chouteau County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chouteau County: Blaine, Cascade, Fergus, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, Pondera & Teton.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Colony Bay. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Chouteau 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 Colony Bay (which is Chouteau 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 Colony Bay
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chouteau County (where Colony Bay resides)
- County Website: www.co.chouteau.mt.us/
- County Seat for Chouteau: Fort Benton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Chouteau County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Chouteau County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Chouteau County
- Nearest Communities to Colony Bay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Colony Bay.
- Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Pleasant Valley is located in Chouteau County
- Chappell
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast) - Loma
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma
- Loma is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loma <5>
- Ophir ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast) - Lippard
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Kenilworth
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kenilworth have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
- Kenilworth is located in Chouteau County
- Inga ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Stranahan
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Fort Benton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Benton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Benton
- Fort Benton is located in Chouteau County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,442 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Benton <5>
- Virgelle
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgelle
- Virgelle is located in Chouteau County
- Kershaw
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Coal Banks Landing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coal Banks Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Banks Landing
- Coal Banks Landing is located in Chouteau County
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Tunis
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Verona
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Russell ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Lonesome Prairie ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lonesome Prairie have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonesome Prairie
- Lonesome Prairie is located in Chouteau County
- Carter
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carter have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
- Carter is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carter <5>
- Big Sandy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy
- Big Sandy is located in Chouteau County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Sandy <5>
- Montague
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Patterson ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Shonkin
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Floweree
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floweree
- Floweree is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Floweree <5>
- Rocky Crossing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
- Rocky Crossing is located in Chouteau County
- Genou ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Big Sag
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sag
- Big Sag is located in Chouteau County
- Lander Crossing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lander Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander Crossing
- Lander Crossing is located in Chouteau County
- Tunis
- 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 Colony Bay ...
- Liberty County
- 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 Colony Bay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Colony Bay.
- Hay Coulee ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hay Coulee have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Coulee
- Hay Coulee is located in Liberty County
- Riverview Colony
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverview Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Colony
- Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County
- George ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Selma ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest) - Tiber Dam Camp
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tiber Dam Camp have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp
- Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Colony Bay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Colony Bay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.0305, Longitude: -110.6124 In this case, the coordinates for Colony Bay have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Colony Bay, 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> | 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. |
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