Nearest Communities to Hay Coulee,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hay Coulee, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hay Coulee:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from Hay Coulee.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Hay Coulee is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Liberty County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Liberty County: Chouteau, Hill, Pondera & Toole.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hay Coulee. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Liberty 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 Hay Coulee (which is Liberty 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 Hay Coulee
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Liberty County (where Hay Coulee resides)
- County Website: https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Liberty: Chester
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hay Coulee ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Coulee.
- George ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- George is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for George
- Tiber Dam Camp
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp
- Riverview Colony
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Colony
- Chester
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Selma ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Selma is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
- Buelow
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Buelow is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buelow
- Joplin
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Tiber
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Tiber is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber
- Lothair
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lothair is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lothair
- Chouteau County
- County Website: https://co.chouteau.mt.us/
- County Seat for Chouteau: Fort Benton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hay Coulee ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Coulee.
- Kenilworth
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Kenilworth is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
- Russell ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Russell is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
- Colony Bay ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Colony Bay is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony Bay
- Lonesome Prairie ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Lonesome Prairie is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonesome Prairie
- Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Pleasant Valley is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Inga ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Inga is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inga
- Ashmoor ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ashmoor is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashmoor
- Chappell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Chappell is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell
- Loma
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Genou ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Genou is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genou
- Ophir ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ophir is located in Chouteau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
- Hill County
- County Website: https://hillcounty.us/
- County Seat for Hill: Havre
- Note: The Canadian Province of Alberta lies to the northwest and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northeast
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hay Coulee ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hay Coulee.
- Brinkman ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Brinkman is located in Hill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
- Inverness
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Iverness
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Iverness is located in Hill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iverness
- Rudyard
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hingham
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Gildford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Toole County
- County Website: https://www.toolecountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Toole: Shelby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hay Coulee ...
- Galata
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hay Coulee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Hay Coulee, 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. |
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