Nearest Communities to Muscleshell City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Muscleshell City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Muscleshell City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Muscleshell City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Muscleshell City is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Petroleum County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Petroleum County: Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell & Phillips.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Muscleshell City. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Petroleum 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 Muscleshell City (which is Petroleum 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 Muscleshell City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Petroleum County (where Muscleshell City resides)
- County Website: https://petroleumcountymt.org/
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
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- Nearest Communities to Muscleshell City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Muscleshell City.
- Woods Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Woods Place is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
- Dovetail ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Dovetail is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dovetail
- Cat Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
- Shay ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Shay is located in Petroleum County
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- Jitney ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Jitney is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jitney
- Fergus County
- County Website: https://fergusmt.gov/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
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- Nearest Communities to Muscleshell City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Muscleshell City.
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Carroll is located in Fergus County
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- Valentine
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Valentine is located in Fergus County
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- Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Rocky Point is located in Fergus County
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- Little Crooked ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Little Crooked is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Crooked
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
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- These communities are listed by their distance from Muscleshell City.
- Smithson ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Smithson is located in Garfield County
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- Mecaha ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Mecaha is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecaha
- Metersville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Metersville is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metersville
- Hazny ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Hazny is located in Garfield County
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- Ross Hall
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Ross Hall is located in Garfield County
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- Benzien
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Benzien is located in Garfield County
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- Blackfoot ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Blackfoot is located in Garfield County
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- Tindall ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Tindall is located in Garfield County
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- Brusett
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Bruce ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bruce is located in Garfield County
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- Butte Creek ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Butte Creek is located in Garfield County
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- Steve Forks
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Steve Forks is located in Garfield County
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- Phillips County
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
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- Nearest Communities to Muscleshell City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Muscleshell City.
- Legg ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Legg is located in Phillips County
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- X Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- X Crossing is located in Phillips County
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- Fourchette ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Fourchette is located in Phillips County
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- Leedy ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Leedy is located in Phillips County
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- Dryer Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dryer Place is located in Phillips County
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- First Creek ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- First Creek is located in Phillips County
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- Sun Prairie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Sun Prairie is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
- Trine ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Trine is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Muscleshell City) 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 Muscleshell City, 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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