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Nearest Communities to Polebridge,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Polebridge.<1>

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

Polebridge is located in Flathead County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Flathead County: Glacier, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Missoula, Pondera, Powell, Sanders & Teton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Polebridge. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Flathead 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 Polebridge (which is Flathead 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 Polebridge

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

  • Flathead County   (where Polebridge resides)
    • 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 Polebridge   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Polebridge.
      • Reuter ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Reuter is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reuter
      • Ford
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Ford is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
      • Wurtz Hill
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Wurtz Hill is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wurtz Hill
      • Trailcreek
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Trailcreek is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailcreek
      • Olney
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Radnor
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Radnor is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radnor
      • Red Rock Point
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Red Rock Point is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock Point
      • Vista
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Vista is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
      • Apgar
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Apgar is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgar
      • Geduhn ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Geduhn is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geduhn
      • Lake McDonald
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Lake McDonald is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake McDonald
      • Lupfer
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Lupfer is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lupfer
      • Continue List   (18 more) ...
  • Glacier County
  • Lincoln County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Polebridge) 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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