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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting 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 Website: https://blainecounty-mt.gov/
- County Seat for Blaine: Chinook
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Pine Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Dry Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Dry Lake is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Lake
- Lodge Pole
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
- Big Warm ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Big Warm is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Warm
- Rattlesnake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Rattlesnake is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rattlesnake
- Cow Island ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Cow Island is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Island
- Power Plant ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Power Plant is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power Plant
- Cleveland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cleveland is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
- Leroy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Leroy is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Ramburg ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Ramburg is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramburg
- Riedel ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Riedel is located in Blaine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riedel
- Fergus County
- County Website: https://fergusmt.gov/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Mobridge ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Mobridge is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobridge
- Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rocky Point is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Woodhawk ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Woodhawk is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodhawk
- Phillips County
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hays ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hays.
- Landusky ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Landusky is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landusky
- Whitcomb ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Whitcomb is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitcomb
- Zortman
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- DY Junction
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- DY Junction is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DY Junction
- Brookside ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Brookside is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookside
- Trine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Trine is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trine
- Midale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Midale is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midale
- Phillips
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Phillips is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hays) 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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