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Nearest Communities to Kirby,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Kirby.<1>

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

Kirby is located in Big Horn County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Big Horn County: Carbon, Powder River, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone, Big Horn (WY) & Sheridan (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Kirby. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Big Horn 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 Kirby (which is Big Horn 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 Kirby

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

  • Big Horn County   (where Kirby resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bighorncountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Big Horn:   Hardin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kirby   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kirby.
      • Busby
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Forty Mile Colony
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Forty Mile Colony is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forty Mile Colony
      • Lodge Grass
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Benteen
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Benteen is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benteen
      • Spear
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Spear is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spear
      • Muddy
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Muddy is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy
      • Decker
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Retreat Crossing
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Retreat Crossing is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retreat Crossing
      • Garryowen
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Wyola
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Aberdeen
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Aberdeen is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen
      • Crow Agency
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Rosebud County
  • Sheridan County
    • County Website:   https://www.sheridancountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Sheridan (WY)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kirby   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kirby.
      • Acme
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Acme is located in Sheridan County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
      • Kleenburn
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Kleenburn is located in Sheridan County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kleenburn
      • Monarch ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Monarch is located in Sheridan County (WY)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monarch
      • Ranchester
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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 from Point A (ie- Kirby) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.