Nearest Communities to Foundation,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Foundation, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Foundation:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Foundation.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Foundation is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Custer County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Carter, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Prairie & Rosebud.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Foundation. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Foundation (which is Custer 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 Foundation
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Foundation resides)
- 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 Foundation ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Foundation.
- Knowlton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Oneill ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest) - Kimball ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Mizpah
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Ismay
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ismay
- Ismay is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
- Former name for Ismay:
- Joe
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ismay <5>
- Carter County
- 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 Foundation ...
- 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 Foundation ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Foundation.
- MacKenzie ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Westmore
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast) - Plevna
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plevna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plevna
- Plevna is located in Fallon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plevna <5>
- Willard
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
- Willard is located in Fallon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Willard <5>
- Prairie County
- County Seat for Prairie: Terry
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Prairie County
- Nearest Communities to Foundation ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Foundation.
- Mildred
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mildred
- Mildred is located in Prairie County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mildred <5>
- Sutherland ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sutherland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutherland
- Sutherland is located in Prairie County
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- Foundation) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Foundation. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2594, Longitude: -104.9611 In this case, the coordinates for Foundation have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Foundation, 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |