Nearest Communities to Fort Benton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Benton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Benton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Fort Benton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fort Benton is located in Chouteau County and is the County Seat.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chouteau County: Blaine, Cascade, Fergus, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, Pondera & Teton.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Benton. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Chouteau 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 Fort Benton (which is Chouteau 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 Fort Benton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Chouteau County (where Fort Benton resides)
- County Website: https://co.chouteau.mt.us/
- County Seat for Chouteau: Fort Benton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fort Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Benton.
- Kershaw
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Kershaw is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kershaw
- Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Valley is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Tunis
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Tunis is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
- Chappell
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Chappell is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell
- Loma
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Ophir ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ophir is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
- Patterson ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Patterson is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Montague
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Montague is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montague
- Colony Bay ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Colony Bay is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony Bay
- Lippard
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lippard is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lippard
- Shonkin
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Shonkin is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shonkin
- Carter
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Big Sag
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Big Sag is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sag
- Highwood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Lander Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Lander Crossing is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander Crossing
- Shepherd Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Shepherd Crossing is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherd Crossing
- Floweree
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Stranahan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Stranahan is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stranahan
- Waltham
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Waltham is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waltham
- Virgelle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Virgelle is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgelle
- Pack and Lacey Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Geraldine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Coal Banks Landing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Coal Banks Landing is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Banks Landing
- Inga ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Inga is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inga
- Russell ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Russell is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
- Kenilworth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kenilworth is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
- Lonetree ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lonetree is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonetree
- Woods Crossing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Woods Crossing is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Crossing
- Verona
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Verona is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
- Genou ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Genou is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genou
- Square Butte
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Square Butte is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Square Butte
- Cascade County
- County Website: https://www.cascadecountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Cascade: Great Falls
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fort Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Benton.
- Belt Creek
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Belt Creek is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belt Creek
- Portage
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Portage is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Rogers
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Rogers is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
- Salem
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Salem is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
- Sheffels
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sheffels is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffels
- Cooper
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Cooper is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
- Fife
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Fife is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fife
- Wayne
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Wayne is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne
- Liberty County
- County Website: https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Liberty: Chester
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fort Benton ...
- Riverview Colony
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Colony
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Benton) 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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