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Nearest Communities to Crane,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Crane.<1>

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

Crane is located in Richland County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Richland County: Dawson, McCone, Roosevelt, Wibaux & McKenzie (ND).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Crane. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Richland 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 Crane (which is Richland 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 Crane

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

  • Richland County   (where Crane resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.richland.org/
    • County Seat for Richland:   Sidney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Crane   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Crane.
      • Piche
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sears ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Sears is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
      • Hoffmanville
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hoffmanville is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffmanville
      • Midway
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Midway is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Newlon Junction
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Newlon Junction is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlon Junction
      • Riverview
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Riverview is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
      • Knife River
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Knife River is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River
      • Savage
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Fischer Park
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Fischer Park is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fischer Park
      • Sidney
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Brorson ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Brorson is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brorson
      • Wooley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Wooley is located in Richland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooley
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Burns
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Burns is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
        • Ridgelawn
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Ridgelawn is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgelawn
        • Fox Lake
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Lambert
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Ludington
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Ludington is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington
        • Girard
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Girard is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
        • Fairview
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Sioux Pass
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Sioux Pass is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Pass
        • Enid
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Nohly
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Nohly is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nohly
        • Andes
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Andes is located in Richland County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andes
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://dawsoncountymontana.org/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Glendive
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Crane   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Crane.
      • Lufboro ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Lufboro is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lufboro
      • Intake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Intake is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Intake
      • Red Top
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Red Top is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Top
  • Wibaux County
  • Golden Valley County
  • McKenzie 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- Crane) 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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