Nearest Communities to Ridgeway,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ridgeway, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ridgeway:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ridgeway is located in Carter County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carter County: Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Butte (SD), Harding (SD) & Crook (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ridgeway. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Carter 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 Ridgeway (which is Carter 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 Ridgeway
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carter County (where Ridgeway resides)
- County Seat for Carter: Ekalaka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Carter County
- Nearest Communities to Ridgeway ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ridgeway.
- Belltower
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast) - Prairie Dale ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Dale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Dale
- Prairie Dale is located in Carter County
- Chalk Buttes ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chalk Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk Buttes
- Chalk Buttes is located in Carter County
- Elgin ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Pershing ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Capitol
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitol
- Capitol is located in Carter County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Capitol <4>
- Albion
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Midland ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Beaver Flats ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beaver Flats have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Flats
- Beaver Flats is located in Carter County
- Hammond
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
- Hammond is located in Carter County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammond <4>
- Ekalaka
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ekalaka have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ekalaka
- Ekalaka is located in Carter County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ekalaka <4>
- Mill Iron
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Boyes
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyes
- Boyes is located in Carter County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Boyes <4>
- Harding County
- County Seat for Harding: Buffalo (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Harding County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Harding County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Harding County
- Nearest Communities to Ridgeway ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ridgeway.
- Camp Crook
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Crook have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Crook
- Camp Crook is located in Harding County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Camp Crook <4>
- Gustave
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
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 from Point A (ie- Ridgeway) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ridgeway. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4853, Longitude: -104.5119 In this case, the coordinates for Ridgeway have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |