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Nearest Communities to Minneota,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Minneota is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Hill County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hill County: Blaine, Chouteau & Liberty.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Minneota. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Hill County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Minneota (which is Hill 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 Minneota

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

  • Hill County   (where Minneota resides)
    • County Website:   https://hillcounty.us/
    • County Seat for Hill:   Havre
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Alberta lies to the northwest and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Minneota   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Minneota.
      • Fox Crossing
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Fox Crossing is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Crossing
      • Goldstone
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Goldstone is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldstone
      • Gildford Colony
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Gildford Colony is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gildford Colony
      • Simpson
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Simpson is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson
      • Inverness
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Iverness
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Iverness is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iverness
      • Rudyard
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Hingham
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Gildford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Saint Johns
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Saint Johns is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns
  • Liberty County
    • County Website:   https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Liberty:   Chester
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Minneota   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Minneota.
      • Alma ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Alma is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
      • Sage Creek Colony
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Sage Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Creek Colony
      • Old Banks Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Old Banks Place is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Banks Place
      • Joplin
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Buelow
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Buelow is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buelow
      • Hill
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Hill is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
      • Whitlash
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Eagle Creek Colony
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Eagle Creek Colony is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Creek Colony
      • Chester
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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- Minneota) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Minneota, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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