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Nearest Communities to Riverview Colony,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind 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.


Riverview Colony is located in Liberty County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Liberty County: Chouteau, Hill, Pondera & Toole.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Riverview Colony. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Liberty 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 Riverview Colony (which is Liberty 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 Riverview Colony

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

  • Liberty County   (where Riverview Colony resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Liberty:   Chester
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview Colony.
      • Selma ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Selma is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
      • Tiber Dam Camp
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp
      • George ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • George is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for George
      • Hay Coulee ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Hay Coulee is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Coulee
      • Lothair
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Lothair is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lothair
      • Chester
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Tiber
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Tiber is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber
      • Buelow
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Buelow is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buelow
      • Joplin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Chouteau County
    • County Website:   https://co.chouteau.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Chouteau:   Fort Benton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview Colony.
      • Russell ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Russell is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
      • Ashmoor ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Ashmoor is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashmoor
      • Genou ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Genou is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genou
      • Aznoe ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Aznoe is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aznoe
      • Colony Bay ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Colony Bay is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony Bay
      • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Woods Crossing
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Woods Crossing is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Crossing
      • Tunis
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Tunis is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
      • Kenilworth
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Kenilworth is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
      • Carter
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Kershaw
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Kershaw is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kershaw
      • Chappell
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Chappell is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Fort Benton
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Loma
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Floweree
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Ophir ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Ophir is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
  • Hill County
    • County Website:   https://hillcounty.us/
    • County Seat for Hill:   Havre
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Alberta lies to the northwest and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverview Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverview Colony.
      • Brinkman ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Brinkman is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
      • Inverness
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Iverness
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Iverness is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iverness
  • Pondera County
  • Toole County

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- Riverview Colony) 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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