Nearest Communities to Hays,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hays, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hays:
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 Hays.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Hays is located in Blaine County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Blaine County: Chouteau, Fergus, Hill & Phillips.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hays. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Blaine 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 Hays (which is Blaine 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 Hays
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Blaine County (where Hays resides)
- County Seat for Blaine: Chinook
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Pine Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
- Pine Grove is located in Blaine County
- Dry Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast) - Lodge Pole
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
- Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
- Big Warm ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Rattlesnake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rattlesnake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rattlesnake
- Rattlesnake is located in Blaine County
- Cow Island ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cow Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Island
- Cow Island is located in Blaine County
- Power Plant ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Power Plant have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power Plant
- Power Plant is located in Blaine County
- Cleveland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Leroy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Ramburg ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Riedel ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fergus County
- County Website: www.co.fergus.mt.us/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Mobridge ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Rocky Point is located in Fergus County
- Woodhawk ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Phillips County
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Landusky ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Whitcomb ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Zortman
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zortman
- Zortman is located in Phillips County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zortman <4>
- DY Junction
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for DY Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DY Junction
- DY Junction is located in Phillips County
- Brookside ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Trine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast) - Midale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Phillips
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hays) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hays. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.9906, Longitude: -108.6943 |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |