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Nearest Communities to Colstrip,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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 starting from Colstrip.<1>

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

Colstrip is located in 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Colstrip. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Rosebud 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 Colstrip (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 Colstrip

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

  • Rosebud County   (where Colstrip resides)
    • County Website:   https://rosebudcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Rosebud:   Forsyth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Colstrip   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Colstrip.
      • Hopsonville ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Hopsonville is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
      • Castle Rock ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Castle Rock is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
      • Lee ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Lee is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
      • Saints Rest ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Saints Rest is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saints Rest
      • Signal Butte ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Signal Butte is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
      • Jimtown
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Jimtown is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
      • Wood Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Wood Place is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Place
      • Sabra ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Sabra is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabra
      • Crain Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Crain Place is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crain Place
      • Lame Deer
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Brandenberg
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Brandenberg is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandenberg
      • Forsyth
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Ashland
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Nichols
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Nichols is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
        • Albright ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Albright is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albright
        • 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
        • Flynn
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Flynn is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flynn
        • Orinoco
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Orinoco is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orinoco
        • Porcupine ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Porcupine is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porcupine
        • Rosebud
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Cartersville
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Cartersville is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville
        • Howard ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Howard is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
        • Joppa
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Joppa is located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
  • Big Horn County
  • 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Colstrip) 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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