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Nearest Communities to Phillips,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 from Phillips.<1>

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


Phillips is located in Phillips County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Phillips. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Phillips (which is Phillips 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 Phillips

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

  • Phillips County   (where Phillips resides)
    • County Seat for Phillips:   Malta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Phillips   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Phillips.
      • Brookside ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Brookside is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookside
      • Old Whitcomb Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Old Whitcomb Place is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Whitcomb Place
      • Midale
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Midale is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midale
      • Regina ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Regina is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regina
      • Wagner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Wagner is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
      • First Creek ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • First Creek is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Creek
      • Zortman
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Dodson
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Whitcomb ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Whitcomb is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitcomb
      • Malta
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Malta is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Malta <3>
      • Trine ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Trine is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trine
      • Sun Prairie
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Sun Prairie is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Landusky ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Landusky is located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landusky
        • Fourchette ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Fourchette is located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourchette
        • Box Elder ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Box Elder is located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Elder
        • Content
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Content is located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Content
        • DY Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • DY Junction is located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DY Junction
  • Blaine County
    • County Website:   https://blainecounty-mt.gov/
    • County Seat for Blaine:   Chinook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Phillips   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Phillips.
      • Big Warm ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Big Warm is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Warm
      • Lodge Pole
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
      • Dry Lake
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Dry Lake is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Lake
      • Pine Grove
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Pine Grove is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
      • Hays
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Coburg
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Coburg is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburg

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Phillips) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.