Nearest Communities to Moorhead,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Moorhead, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Moorhead:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Moorhead is located in Powder River County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Powder River County: Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Rosebud, Campbell (WY), Crook (WY) & Sheridan (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Moorhead. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Powder River 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 Moorhead (which is Powder River 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 Moorhead
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Powder River County (where Moorhead resides)
- County Seat for Powder River: Broadus
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Moorhead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Moorhead.
- Sayle
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sayle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayle
- Sayle is located in Powder River County
- Bay Horse
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bay Horse have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Horse
- Bay Horse is located in Powder River County
- Otter
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Moores ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moores have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moores
- Moores is located in Powder River County
- Sonnette
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Biddle
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Big Horn County
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Moorhead ...
- Quietus
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quietus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quietus
- Quietus is located in Big Horn County
- Rosebud County
- County Seat for Rosebud: Forsyth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Moorhead ...
- Gopher ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gopher have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gopher
- Gopher is located in Rosebud County
- Campbell County
- County Website: www.ccg.co.campbell.wy.us/
- County Seat for Campbell: Gillette (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Moorhead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Moorhead.
- Recluse
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Spotted Horse
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spotted Horse have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spotted Horse
- Spotted Horse is located in Campbell County (WY)
- Sheridan County
- County Website: www.sheridancounty.com/
- County Seat for Sheridan: Sheridan (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Moorhead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Moorhead.
- Kendrick
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kendrick have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendrick
- Kendrick is located in Sheridan County (WY)
- Leiter
(30 miles [48.3 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Moorhead) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Moorhead. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.0650, Longitude: -105.8711 In this case, the coordinates for Moorhead 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. |