Nearest Communities to Forty Mile Colony,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Forty Mile Colony, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Forty Mile Colony:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Forty Mile Colony is located in Big Horn County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Big Horn County: Carbon, Powder River, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone, Big Horn (WY) & Sheridan (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Forty Mile Colony. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Big Horn 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 Forty Mile Colony (which is Big Horn 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 Forty Mile Colony
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Big Horn County (where Forty Mile Colony resides)
- County Website: https://www.bighorncountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Forty Mile Colony ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forty Mile Colony.
- Lodge Grass
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Spear
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Spear is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spear
- Wyola
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Benteen
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Benteen is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benteen
- Aberdeen
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Aberdeen is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen
- Retreat Crossing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Retreat Crossing is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retreat Crossing
- Kirby
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Kirby is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
- Garryowen
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Saint Xavier
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Crow Agency
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Busby
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Smith
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Dunmore
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Dunmore is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunmore
- Decker
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sheridan County
- County Website: https://www.sheridancountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Sheridan: Sheridan (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Forty Mile Colony ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Forty Mile Colony.
- Parkman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Ranchester
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Dayton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Monarch ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Monarch is located in Sheridan County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monarch
- Acme
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Acme is located in Sheridan County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
- Kleenburn
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kleenburn is located in Sheridan County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kleenburn
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- Forty Mile Colony) 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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