Nearest Communities to Gopher,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Gopher, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Gopher:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Gopher is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Rosebud County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rosebud County: Big Horn, Custer, Garfield, Musselshell, Petroleum, Powder River, Treasure & Yellowstone.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gopher. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Rosebud 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 Gopher (which is Rosebud 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 Gopher
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rosebud County (where Gopher resides)
- County Seat for Rosebud: Forsyth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- Nearest Communities to Gopher ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gopher.
- Birney
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birney
- Birney is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Birney <4>
- Birney Day School
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Birney Day School have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birney Day School
- Birney Day School is located in Rosebud County
- Ashland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
- Ashland is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ashland <4>
- Big Horn County
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- Nearest Communities to Gopher ...
- 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 Gopher ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gopher.
- Otter
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otter
- Otter is located in Powder River County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Otter <4>
- Sayle
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east) - Willow Crossing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Crossing
- Willow Crossing is located in Powder River County
- Moorhead
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Sonnette
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonnette
- Sonnette is located in Powder River County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sonnette <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Gopher) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gopher. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.2233, Longitude: -106.3006 In this case, the coordinates for Gopher 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 Gopher, 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |