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Nearest Communities to Grass Range,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Grass Range, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Grass Range:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Grass Range.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.


Grass Range is located in Fergus County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fergus County: Blaine, Chouteau, Golden Valley, Judith Basin, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips & Wheatland.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grass Range. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Fergus 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 Grass Range (which is Fergus 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 Grass Range

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Fergus County   (where Grass Range resides)
    • County Website:   https://fergusmt.gov/
    • County Seat for Fergus:   Lewistown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grass Range   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grass Range.
      • Becket
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Becket is located in Fergus County
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      • Dryland ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Dryland is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryland
      • Chippewa ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Chippewa is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippewa
      • Ayers Ranch Colony
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Ayers Ranch Colony is located in Fergus County
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      • Bell Ranch Colony
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Bell Ranch Colony is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Ranch Colony
      • Battrick ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Battrick is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battrick
      • Novary ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Novary is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novary
      • Warr ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Warr is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warr
      • Forestgrove
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Cheadle ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Cheadle is located in Fergus County
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      • Piper
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Piper is located in Fergus County
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      • Fort Maginnis ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Fort Maginnis is located in Fergus County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Maginnis
      • Continue List   (25 more) ...
        • Darrel ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
          • Darrel is located in Fergus County
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        • Skaggs ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Skaggs is located in Fergus County
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        • Giltedge ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Giltedge is located in Fergus County
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        • Canyon ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Canyon is located in Fergus County
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        • Heath
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Heath is located in Fergus County
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        • Nelson ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Nelson is located in Fergus County
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        • Box Elder ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Box Elder is located in Fergus County
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        • Roy
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Maiden
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Maiden is located in Fergus County
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        • Rustle ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Rustle is located in Fergus County
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        • Ruby Gulch ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Ruby Gulch is located in Fergus County
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        • Fergus
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Fergus is located in Fergus County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fergus
        • Andersonville ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Andersonville is located in Fergus County
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        • New Year
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • New Year is located in Fergus County
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        • Box Springs ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Box Springs is located in Fergus County
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        • Valentine
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Valentine is located in Fergus County
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        • Armells ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Armells is located in Fergus County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armells
        • Corbly ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Corbly is located in Fergus County
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        • Lewistown Junction
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Lewistown Junction is located in Fergus County
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        • Roy Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Roy Junction is located in Fergus County
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        • Akerville ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Akerville is located in Fergus County
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        • Hilger
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Lewistown Heights
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Lewistown Heights is located in Fergus County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown Heights
        • Lewistown
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Roy - Winifred Junction
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Golden Valley County
  • Musselshell County
  • Petroleum County
    • County Website:   https://petroleumcountymt.org/
    • County Seat for Petroleum:   Winnett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grass Range   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grass Range.
      • Teigen
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Blakeslee ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Blakeslee is located in Petroleum County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeslee
      • Winnett
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Flatwillow
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Flatwillow is located in Petroleum County
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      • Wallview ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Wallview is located in Petroleum County
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      • Hoyle ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Hoyle is located in Petroleum County
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      • Shay ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Shay is located in Petroleum County
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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- Grass Range) 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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