Nearest Communities to Nichols,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Nichols, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Nichols:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 starting from Nichols.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Nichols is located in Rosebud County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rosebud County: Big Horn, Custer, Garfield, Musselshell, Petroleum, Powder River, Treasure & Yellowstone.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Nichols. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Rosebud 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 Nichols (which is Rosebud 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 Nichols
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rosebud County (where Nichols resides)
- County Seat for Rosebud: Forsyth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Rosebud County
- Nearest Communities to Nichols ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nichols.
- Cold Spring
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cold Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
- Cold Spring is located in Rosebud County
- Howard ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Forsyth
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forsyth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forsyth
- Forsyth is located in Rosebud County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,752 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forsyth <4>
- Porcupine ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Finch
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Orinoco
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east) - Vananda
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest) - Flynn
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Albright ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Cartersville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cartersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville
- Cartersville is located in Rosebud County
- Rosebud
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud
- Rosebud is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rosebud <4>
- Sabra ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast) - Continue List (10 more) ...
- Ahles
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Hopsonville ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hopsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
- Hopsonville is located in Rosebud County
- Joppa
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Thurlow
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Castle Rock ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
- Castle Rock is located in Rosebud County
- Thebes
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Colstrip
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colstrip
- Colstrip is located in Rosebud County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,217 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colstrip <4>
- Crain Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crain Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crain Place
- Crain Place is located in Rosebud County
- Hathaway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Signal Butte ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Signal Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
- Signal Butte is located in Rosebud County
- Ahles
- Big Horn County
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Big Horn County
- Nearest Communities to Nichols ...
- Treasure County
- County Seat for Treasure: Hysham
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Treasure County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Treasure County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Treasure County
- Nearest Communities to Nichols ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nichols.
- Sanders
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanders
- Sanders is located in Treasure County
- Hysham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hysham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hysham
- Hysham is located in Treasure County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 307 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hysham <4>
- Myers
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Burnt Creek ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burnt Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Creek
- Burnt Creek is located in Treasure County
- Rancher ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Etchetah ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
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- Nichols) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Nichols. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2639, Longitude: -106.8167 In this case, the coordinates for Nichols 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. |