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Nearest Communities to Hysham,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.

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

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

Hysham is located in Treasure County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Treasure County: Big Horn, Musselshell, Petroleum, Rosebud & Yellowstone.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hysham. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Treasure 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 Hysham (which is Treasure 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 Hysham

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

  • Treasure County   (where Hysham resides)
    • County Seat for Treasure:   Hysham
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hysham   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hysham.
      • Myers
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Sanders
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Rancher ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Rancher is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancher
      • Etchetah ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Etchetah is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etchetah
      • Bighorn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Kurtzville ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Kurtzville is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kurtzville
      • Burnt Creek ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Burnt Creek is located in Treasure County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Creek
  • Big Horn County
  • Rosebud County
    • County Website:   https://rosebudcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Rosebud:   Forsyth
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hysham   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hysham.
      • Finch
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Finch is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
      • Vananda
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Vananda is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vananda
      • Ahles
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Ahles is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahles
      • Howard ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Howard is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
      • Thebes
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Thebes is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thebes
      • Nichols
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Nichols is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
      • Ingomar
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Cold Spring
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Cold Spring is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
      • Galbraith
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Galbraith is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith
      • Forsyth
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Porcupine ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Porcupine is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porcupine
      • Sumatra
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Orinoco
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Orinoco is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orinoco
      • Hibbard ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Hibbard is located in Rosebud County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hibbard
  • Yellowstone County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Hysham) 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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