Nearest Communities to Porcupine,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Porcupine, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Porcupine:
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 starting from Porcupine.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Porcupine is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Porcupine. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Rosebud County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Porcupine (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 Porcupine
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rosebud County (where Porcupine 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 Porcupine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Porcupine.
- Forsyth
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forsyth have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <5>
- Orinoco
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Cold Spring
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cold Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
- Cold Spring is located in Rosebud County
- Flynn
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Nichols
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Albright ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Cartersville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cartersville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartersville
- Cartersville is located in Rosebud County
- Rosebud
(10 miles [16.1 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 <5>
- Howard ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Joppa
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Finch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west) - Thurlow
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Continue List (9 more) ...
- Vananda
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest) - Sabra ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Hathaway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east) - Hopsonville ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hopsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
- Hopsonville is located in Rosebud County
- Crain Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crain Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crain Place
- Crain Place is located in Rosebud County
- Ahles
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Signal Butte ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Signal Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
- Signal Butte is located in Rosebud County
- Colstrip
(28 miles [45.1 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 <5>
- Castle Rock ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
- Castle Rock is located in Rosebud County
- Vananda
- Custer County
- County Seat for Custer: Miles City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Porcupine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Porcupine.
- Sheffield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Sadie ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Horton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Moon Creek ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moon Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moon Creek
- Moon Creek is located in Custer County
- 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 Porcupine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Porcupine.
- Sanders
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanders
- Sanders is located in Treasure County
- Hysham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hysham have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <5>
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- Porcupine) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Porcupine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2897, Longitude: -106.6603 In this case, the coordinates for Porcupine have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Porcupine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |