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Nearest Communities to McCloud,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 starting from McCloud.<1>

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

McCloud is located in Prairie County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Prairie County: Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, McCone & Wibaux.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McCloud. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Prairie 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 McCloud (which is Prairie 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 McCloud

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

  • Prairie County   (where McCloud resides)
    • County Seat for Prairie:   Terry
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCloud   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCloud.
      • Calypso
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calypso have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calypso
        • Calypso is located in Prairie County
      • Blatchford
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blatchford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blatchford
        • Blatchford is located in Prairie County
      • Olanda ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olanda have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olanda
        • Olanda is located in Prairie County
      • Saugus
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saugus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saugus
        • Saugus is located in Prairie County
      • Terry
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terry have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry
        • Terry is located in Prairie County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 550 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Terry <4>
      • Zero
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zero have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zero
        • Zero is located in Prairie County
      • Benz
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Benz have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benz
        • Benz is located in Prairie County
      • Bluffport
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluffport have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluffport
        • Bluffport is located in Prairie County
      • Crow Rock
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crow Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Rock
        • Crow Rock is located in Prairie County
      • Fallon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fallon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallon
        • Fallon is located in Prairie County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fallon <4>
      • Sutherland ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sutherland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutherland
        • Sutherland is located in Prairie County
  • Custer County
    • County Seat for Custer:   Miles City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCloud   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCloud.
      • Bonfield
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bonfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonfield
        • Bonfield is located in Custer County
      • Shirley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shirley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
        • Shirley is located in Custer County
      • Kinsey
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Hilcrest ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilcrest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilcrest
        • Hilcrest is located in Custer County
      • Tusler
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tusler have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tusler
        • Tusler is located in Custer County
  • Dawson County
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Glendive
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCloud   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCloud.
      • Union ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Union have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
        • Union is located in Dawson County
      • Lindsay
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • McCone County
    • County Seat for McCone:   Circle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McCloud   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McCloud.
      • Watkins
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watkins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watkins
        • Watkins is located in McCone County
      • Brockway
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Rosebud County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- McCloud) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McCloud. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.9008, Longitude: -105.6003       In this case, the coordinates for McCloud have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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