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Nearest Communities to Saco,
Listed County-By-County

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

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


Saco is located in Phillips County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Saco. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Saco (which is Phillips 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 Saco

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

  • Phillips County   (where Saco resides)
    • County Seat for Phillips:   Malta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saco.
      • Bone Crossing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Bone Crossing is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Crossing
      • Jordan Crossing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Jordan Crossing is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Crossing
      • Ashfield
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Ashfield is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashfield
      • Cole
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Cole is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole
      • Sleeping Buffalo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Sleeping Buffalo is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleeping Buffalo
      • Cree Crossing
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Cree Crossing is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cree Crossing
      • Bowdoin
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Bowdoin is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin
      • Tattnall
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Tattnall is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tattnall
      • East Malta Colony
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • East Malta Colony is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Malta Colony
      • Valleytown
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Valleytown is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valleytown
      • Whitewater
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Malta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Malta is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Malta <3>
      • Ynot ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Ynot is located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ynot
  • Valley County
    • County Website:   https://www.valleycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Glasgow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saco.
      • Beaverton
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Beaverton is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaverton
      • Miles Crossing
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Miles Crossing is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles Crossing
      • Hinsdale
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Larb ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Larb is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larb
      • Genevieve
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Genevieve is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genevieve
      • Vandalia
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Barr ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Barr is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barr
      • Tampico
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Tampico is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tampico
      • Riverside ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverside is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Saco) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.