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Nearest Communities to Helmville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Helmville.<1>

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


Helmville is located in Powell County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Powell County: Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark & Missoula.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 61 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Helmville. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than Powell 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 Helmville (which is Powell 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 Helmville

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

  • Powell County   (where Helmville resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.powellcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Powell:   Deer Lodge
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Helmville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Helmville.
      • Coughlin
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Coughlin is located in Powell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coughlin
      • Geary
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Geary is located in Powell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geary
      • Mannix
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Mannix is located in Powell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannix
      • Ovando
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Finn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Finn is located in Powell County
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      • Keiley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Keiley is located in Powell County
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      • Reynolds City
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Reynolds City is located in Powell County
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      • Sharkeyville ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Sharkeyville is located in Powell County
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      • Brock Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Brock Creek is located in Powell County
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      • Dutton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Dutton is located in Powell County
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      • Jens
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Goldcreek ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
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        • Phosphate
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Quigley
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Quigley is located in Powell County
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        • Wall City
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Wall City is located in Powell County
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        • McGillvary
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • McGillvary is located in Powell County
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        • Lingenpolter
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Lingenpolter is located in Powell County
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        • Blackfoot City ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Blackfoot City is located in Powell County
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        • McDonald
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • McDonald is located in Powell County
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        • Garrison
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Pioneer ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Pioneer is located in Powell County
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        • Bradley ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Bradley is located in Powell County
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        • Avon
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Granite County
    • County Website:   https://www.granitecountymt.us/
    • County Seat for Granite:   Philipsburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Helmville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Helmville.
      • Top O'Deep
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Top O'Deep is located in Granite County
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      • Springtown
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Springtown is located in Granite County
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      • Drummond
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Haskell ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Haskell is located in Granite County
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      • Bradman
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Bradman is located in Granite County
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      • Ozan
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ozan is located in Granite County
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      • New Chicago
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Beartown ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Garnet ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Stump Town ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Stump Town is located in Granite County
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      • Bearmouth ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Hall
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
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        • Sherryl
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Sherryl is located in Granite County
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        • Byrne
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Byrne is located in Granite County
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        • Nimrod
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Nimrod is located in Granite County
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        • Stone
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Baird ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Baird is located in Granite County
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        • Ravenna
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Ravenna is located in Granite County
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        • Maxville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Maxville is located in Granite County
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  • Lewis and Clark County
    • County Website:   https://www.lccountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Lewis and Clark:   Helena
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Helmville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Helmville.
      • Lincoln
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Copper Camp ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Copper Camp is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Atlantic City ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Atlantic City is located in Lewis and Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlantic City
      • Silver King ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Silver King is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Wilborn
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Wilborn is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Ferris ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Ferris is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Bald Butte
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Bald Butte is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Gloster
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Gloster is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Mike Horse ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Mike Horse is located in Lewis and Clark County
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      • Strom
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Strom is located in Lewis and Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strom
  • Missoula County
    • County Website:   https://www.missoulacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Missoula:   Missoula
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Helmville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Helmville.
      • Yreka
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Yreka is located in Missoula County
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      • Coloma ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Coloma is located in Missoula County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coloma
      • Clearwater
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Clearwater is located in Missoula County
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      • Greenough
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Woodworth
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Woodworth is located in Missoula County
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      • Barite
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Barite is located in Missoula County
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      • Copper Cliff ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Copper Cliff is located in Missoula County
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      • Sunset
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Sunset is located in Missoula County
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      • Potomac
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Potomac is located in Missoula 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Helmville) 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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