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Nearest Communities to Crain Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.<1>

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


Crain Place 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 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Crain Place. Of these communities, 11 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 Crain Place (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 Crain Place

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

  • Rosebud County   (where Crain Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://rosebudcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Rosebud:   Forsyth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Crain Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Crain Place.
      • Signal Butte ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Signal Butte was located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
      • Sabra ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Sabra was located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabra
      • Lee ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Lee was located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
      • Hathaway
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Hathaway is also located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hathaway
      • Joppa
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Joppa is also located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
      • Thurlow
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Thurlow is also located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thurlow
      • Brandenberg
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Brandenberg is also located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandenberg
      • Hopsonville ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Hopsonville was located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
      • Rosebud
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Albright ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Albright was located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albright
      • Colstrip
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Cartersville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Cartersville is also located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Flynn
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Flynn is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flynn
        • Orinoco
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Orinoco is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orinoco
        • Wood Place
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Wood Place is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Place
        • Forsyth
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Forsyth is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forsyth
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,752 people
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        • Porcupine ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Porcupine was located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porcupine
        • Castle Rock ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Castle Rock was located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
        • Cold Spring
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Cold Spring is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
        • Nichols
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Nichols is also located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
        • Saints Rest ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Saints Rest was located in Rosebud County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saints Rest
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://custercountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Miles City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Crain Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Crain Place.
      • Moon Creek ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Moon Creek was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moon Creek
      • Garland
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Garland is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
      • Sheffield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Sheffield is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Sadie ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Sadie was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sadie
      • Horton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Horton is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horton
      • Paragon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Paragon is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paragon
      • Etna ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Etna was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Ulmer
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Ulmer is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulmer
      • Cutler ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Cutler was located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler
  • Powder River 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Crain Place) 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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