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Nearest Communities to Rudyard,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 from Rudyard.<1>

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

Rudyard is located in Hill County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hill County: Blaine, Chouteau & Liberty.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rudyard. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Hill 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 Rudyard (which is Hill 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 Rudyard

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

  • Hill County   (where Rudyard resides)
    • 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 Rudyard   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudyard.
      • Inverness
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Hingham
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Iverness
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Iverness is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iverness
      • Gildford
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Brinkman ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Brinkman is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
      • Gildford Colony
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Gildford Colony is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gildford Colony
      • Kremlin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Goldstone
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Goldstone is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldstone
      • Minneota ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Minneota is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minneota
      • Fresno
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Fresno is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresno
      • Fox Crossing
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Fox Crossing is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Crossing
      • Saint Johns
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Saint Johns is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns
      • Simpson
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Simpson is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson
      • Burnham
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Burnham is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnham
  • Chouteau County
  • Liberty County
    • County Website:   https://www.libertycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Liberty:   Chester
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rudyard   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rudyard.
      • Joplin
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Buelow
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Buelow is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buelow
      • Chester
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Alma ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Alma is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
      • Hay Coulee ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hay Coulee is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Coulee
      • George ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • George is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for George
      • Tiber
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Tiber is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber
      • Tiber Dam Camp
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Tiber Dam Camp is located in Liberty County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiber Dam Camp

Footnotes ...

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