Nearest Communities to Ekalaka,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ekalaka, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ekalaka:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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 Ekalaka.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ekalaka is located in Carter County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carter County: Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Butte (SD), Harding (SD) & Crook (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ekalaka. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Carter 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 Ekalaka (which is Carter 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 Ekalaka
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carter County (where Ekalaka resides)
- County Seat for Carter: Ekalaka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- Nearest Communities to Ekalaka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ekalaka.
- Beaver Flats ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beaver Flats have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Flats
- Beaver Flats is located in Carter County
- Pershing ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south) - Elgin ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Prairie Dale ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Dale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Dale
- Prairie Dale is located in Carter County
- Chausse ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest) - Mill Iron
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Chalk Buttes ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chalk Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk Buttes
- Chalk Buttes is located in Carter County
- Belltower
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Ridgeway
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Midland ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Custer County
- County Seat for Custer: Miles City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Ekalaka ...
- Fallon County
- County Seat for Fallon: Baker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Fallon County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Fallon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Fallon County
- Nearest Communities to Ekalaka ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ekalaka.
- Webster
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - MacKenzie ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Willard
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
- Willard is located in Fallon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Willard <4>
- Knobs ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Powder River County
- County Seat for Powder River: Broadus
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Powder River County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Powder River County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Powder River County
- Nearest Communities to Ekalaka ...
- Powderville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powderville
- Powderville is located in Powder River County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Powderville <4>
- Powderville
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ekalaka) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ekalaka. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.8894, Longitude: -104.5507 In this case, the coordinates for Ekalaka have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |