Nearest Communities to Polaris,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Polaris, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Polaris:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 starting from Polaris.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Polaris is located in Beaverhead County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beaverhead County: Clark (ID), Fremont (ID), Lemhi (ID), Deer Lodge, Madison, Ravalli & Silver Bow.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Polaris. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Beaverhead 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 Polaris (which is Beaverhead 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 Polaris
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Beaverhead County (where Polaris resides)
- County Website: https://beaverheadcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Beaverhead: Dillon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Polaris ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Polaris.
- Elkhorn Hot Springs
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Elkhorn Hot Springs is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Hot Springs
- Gloss Place
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Gloss Place is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gloss Place
- Coolidge ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Coolidge is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge
- Elkhorn ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ermont Mill
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ermont Mill is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ermont Mill
- Argenta
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jackson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Bannack ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Yankee Flat ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Yankee Flat is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Flat
- Centerville ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Centerville is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Lion City ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Lion City is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lion City
- Birch Creek ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Birch Creek is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch Creek
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Apex
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Apex is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apex
- Frenchie Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Frenchie Place is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchie Place
- Bond
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Bond is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bond
- Glen
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Navy
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Navy is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navy
- Wisdom
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Barretts
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Barretts is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
- Ford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Ford is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
- Sodak Mill
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Sodak Mill is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodak Mill
- Glendale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Grant
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Grant is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
- Dalys
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Dalys is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalys
- Dillon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Grayling
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Grayling is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayling
- East Bench ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- East Bench is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bench
- Fairview ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Fairview is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Patterson Corner
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Patterson Corner is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson Corner
- Wise River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Dewey
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Dewey is located in Beaverhead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
- Armstead ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Silver Bow County
- County Website: https://co.silverbow.mt.us/
- County Seat for Silver Bow: Butte
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Polaris ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Polaris.
- Melrose
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Quinn
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Quinn is located in Silver Bow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinn
- Maiden Rock
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Maiden Rock is located in Silver Bow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maiden Rock
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- Polaris) 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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