Nearest Communities to Corral Creek,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Corral Creek, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Corral Creek:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Corral Creek.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Corral Creek is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Dawson County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: McCone, Prairie, Richland & Wibaux.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Corral Creek. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Corral Creek (which is Dawson 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 Corral Creek
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dawson County (where Corral Creek resides)
- County Seat for Dawson: Glendive
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Dawson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Dawson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Dawson County
- Nearest Communities to Corral Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Corral Creek.
- Mink ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Paxton ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north) - Richey
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richey
- Richey is located in Dawson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 169 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Richey <5>
- Lindsay
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsay
- Lindsay is located in Dawson County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lindsay <5>
- Bloomfield
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
- Bloomfield is located in Dawson County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bloomfield <5>
- Union ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Red Top
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- McCone County
- County Seat for McCone: Circle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- McCone County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- McCone County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- McCone County
- Nearest Communities to Corral Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Corral Creek.
- Redwater ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
- Redwater is located in McCone County
- Circle
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle
- Circle is located in McCone County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 598 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Circle <5>
- Lost Creek ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek
- Lost Creek is located in McCone County
- Hamblin ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Brockway
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockway
- Brockway is located in McCone County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brockway <5>
- Presserville ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Presserville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presserville
- Presserville is located in McCone County
- Vida
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vida
- Vida is located in McCone County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vida <5>
- Watkins
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Weldon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Prairie County
- County Seat for Prairie: Terry
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- Nearest Communities to Corral Creek ...
- Richland County
- County Website: www.richland.org/
- County Seat for Richland: Sidney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- Nearest Communities to Corral Creek ...
- Enid
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
- Enid is located in Richland County
- Enid
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 from Point A (ie- Corral Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Corral Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.4489, Longitude: -105.3097 In this case, the coordinates for Corral Creek 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 Corral Creek, 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |