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Nearest Communities to Macon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Macon.<1>

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

Macon is located in Roosevelt County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Roosevelt County: Daniels, McCone, Richland, Sheridan, Valley & Williams (ND).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Macon. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Roosevelt 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 Macon (which is Roosevelt 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 Macon

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

  • Roosevelt County   (where Macon resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Wolf Point
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Macon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Macon.
      • Wolf Point
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Chelsea
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Chelsea is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
      • Poplar
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Sprole
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Sprole is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprole
      • Volt
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Volt is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volt
      • Benrud ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Benrud is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benrud
      • Brockton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Bredette
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Bredette is located in Roosevelt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bredette
  • McCone County
    • County Website:   https://mcconecountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for McCone:   Circle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Macon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Macon.
      • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Nickwall
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Nickwall is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nickwall
      • Pearmond ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Pearmond is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearmond
      • Presserville ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Presserville is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presserville
      • Sand Creek ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Sand Creek is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Creek
      • Vida
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Prairie Elk ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Prairie Elk is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Elk
      • Hamblin ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Hamblin is located in McCone County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamblin
  • Richland County
  • Valley County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Macon) 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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