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Nearest Communities to Custer,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Custer.<1>

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

Custer is located in Yellowstone County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yellowstone County: Big Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Rosebud, Stillwater & Treasure.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Custer. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Yellowstone 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 Custer (which is Yellowstone 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 Custer

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

  • Yellowstone County   (where Custer resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.yellowstonecountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Yellowstone:   Billings
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Custer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Custer.
      • Fee
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Fee is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fee
      • Waco
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Waco is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waco
      • Bull Mountain
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Bull Mountain is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Mountain
      • Pompeys Pillar
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Nibbe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Nibbe is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nibbe
      • Anita
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Anita is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anita
      • Newton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Newton is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
      • Mann
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Mann is located in Yellowstone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mann
      • Ballantine
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Big Horn County
    • County Website:   https://www.bighorncountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Big Horn:   Hardin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Custer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Custer.
      • Foster
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Foster is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
      • Kingley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Kingley is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingley
      • Old Ford Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Old Ford Place is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Ford Place
      • Carperville ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Carperville is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carperville
      • Hardin
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • McRae ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • McRae is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRae
      • Corinth
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Corinth is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth
      • Rowley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Rowley is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowley
      • Toluca
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Toluca is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toluca
  • Rosebud County
  • Treasure County
    • County Seat for Treasure:   Hysham
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Custer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Custer.
      • Bighorn
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Kurtzville ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Kurtzville is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kurtzville
      • Etchetah ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Etchetah is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etchetah
      • Rancher ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rancher is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancher
      • Myers
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Myers is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
      • Burnt Creek ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Burnt Creek is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Creek
      • Hysham
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Sanders
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Sanders is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanders

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- Custer) 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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