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Nearest Communities to Mill Iron,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Mill Iron.<1>

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

Mill Iron is located in Carter County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carter County: Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Butte (SD), Harding (SD) & Crook (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mill Iron. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Carter 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 Mill Iron (which is Carter 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 Mill Iron

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

  • Carter County   (where Mill Iron resides)
    • County Seat for Carter:   Ekalaka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mill Iron   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mill Iron.
      • Elgin ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Elgin is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
      • Midland ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Midland is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
      • Belltower
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Belltower is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belltower
      • Ekalaka
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Pershing ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Pershing is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pershing
      • Prairie Dale ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Prairie Dale is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Dale
      • Beaver Flats ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Beaver Flats is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Flats
      • Chalk Buttes ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Chalk Buttes is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk Buttes
      • Chausse ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Chausse is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chausse
      • Capitol
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Ridgeway
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ridgeway is located in Carter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeway
  • Fallon County
  • Harding County

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- Mill Iron) 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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