Nearest Communities to Dovetail,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Dovetail, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Dovetail:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Dovetail.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Dovetail is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Petroleum County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Petroleum County: Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell & Phillips.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dovetail. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Petroleum 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 Dovetail (which is Petroleum 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 Dovetail
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Petroleum County (where Dovetail resides)
- County Website: https://petroleumcountymt.org/
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Dovetail ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dovetail.
- Woods Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Woods Place is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
- Muscleshell City ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Muscleshell City is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscleshell City
- Shay ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Shay is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shay
- Cat Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
- Hoyle ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Hoyle is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyle
- Jitney ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jitney is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jitney
- Winnett
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Blakeslee ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Blakeslee is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeslee
- Teigen
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Fergus County
- County Website: https://fergusmt.gov/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Dovetail ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dovetail.
- Valentine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Valentine is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valentine
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Carroll is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
- Little Crooked ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Little Crooked is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Crooked
- Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Point is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Mobridge ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mobridge is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobridge
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
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- Nearest Communities to Dovetail ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dovetail.
- Mecaha ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Mecaha is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecaha
- Smithson ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Smithson is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithson
- Ross Hall
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ross Hall is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Hall
- Benzien
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Benzien is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benzien
- Mosby
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Metersville ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Metersville is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metersville
- Tindall ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Tindall is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
- Phillips County
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Dovetail ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dovetail.
- Legg ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Legg is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg
- Fourchette ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Fourchette is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourchette
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Dovetail) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Dovetail, 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. |
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