Nearest Communities to Plains,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Plains, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Plains:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Plains.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Plains is located in Sanders County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sanders County: Bonner (ID), Shoshone (ID), Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral & Missoula.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 53 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plains. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Sanders 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 Plains (which is Sanders 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 Plains
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sanders County (where Plains resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.sanders.mt.us/
- County Seat for Sanders: Thompson Falls
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Blanchards Corner
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Blanchards Corner is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanchards Corner
- Weeksville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Weeksville is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksville
- Paradise
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Island City ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Island City is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Donlan
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Donlan is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donlan
- Quinns
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Quinns is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinns
- Knowles
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Knowles is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
- Camas Prairie
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Camas Prairie is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camas Prairie
- Eddy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hot Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Camas
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Camas is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camas
- Perma
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Perma is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perma
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Ashleys Settlement ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Ashleys Settlement is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashleys Settlement
- Snider
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Snider is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snider
- Lonepine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- McDonald
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- McDonald is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
- Thompson Falls
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Sloan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Sloan is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sloan
- Shannonville ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Shannonville is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannonville
- Niarada
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Niarada is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niarada
- Dixon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Old Agency
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Old Agency is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Agency
- Belknap
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Belknap is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap
- Agency
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Agency is located in Sanders County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agency
- Flathead County
- County Website: https://flatheadcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Flathead: Kalispell
- Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- Hog Heaven ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Hog Heaven is located in Flathead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hog Heaven
- Lake County
- County Website: https://www.lakemt.gov/
- County Seat for Lake: Polson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Moiese
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Round Butte
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Round Butte is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Butte
- Spring Valley ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Spring Valley is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Mineral County
- County Website: https://co.mineral.mt.us/
- County Seat for Mineral: Superior
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Toole
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Toole is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toole
- Hopkins
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hopkins is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopkins
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Keystone is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Saint Regis
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Spring Gulch
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Spring Gulch is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Gulch
- Buford ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Buford is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
- Oliverville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Oliverville is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliverville
- Superior
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Foraker
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Foraker is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foraker
- Cabin City
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Cabin City is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin City
- Amador ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Amador is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Cedar Mouth ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Cedar Mouth is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Mouth
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Drexel
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Drexel is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel
- Riverbend
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Riverbend is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbend
- Henderson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Henderson is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henderson
- De Borgia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Cedar Junction ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Cedar Junction is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Junction
- Westfall
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Westfall is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
- Lozeau
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Lozeau is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lozeau
- Haugan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Crescent City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Crescent City is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent City
- Quartz
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Quartz is located in Mineral County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartz
- Saltese
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Missoula County
- County Website: https://www.missoulacounty.us/
- County Seat for Missoula: Missoula
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Old Town
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Old Town is located in Missoula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Stark
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Plains) 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. |
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