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Nearest Communities to Salmon Prairie,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Salmon Prairie.<1>

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

Salmon Prairie is located in Lake County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake County: Flathead, Missoula & Sanders.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Salmon Prairie. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Lake 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 Salmon Prairie (which is Lake 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 Salmon Prairie

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

  • Lake County   (where Salmon Prairie resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lakemt.gov/
    • County Seat for Lake:   Polson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salmon Prairie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salmon Prairie.
      • Allard ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Allard is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allard
      • Mountain View ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Mountain View is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
      • Turtle Lake
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Turtle Lake is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Lake
      • Finley Point
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Finley Point is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finley Point
      • Dunham
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Dunham is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunham
      • Pablo
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Ronan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Kicking Horse
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Kicking Horse is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kicking Horse
      • Belle-Vue Court
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Belle-Vue Court is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle-Vue Court
      • Polson
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Kings Point
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Kings Point is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
      • Allentown
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Allentown is located in Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allentown
      • Continue List   (21 more) ...
        • Jette
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Jette is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jette
        • Kerr
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Kerr is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerr
        • Rocky Point
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Rocky Point is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
        • Swan Lake
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Post Creek
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Post Creek is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Creek
        • Bear Dance
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Bear Dance is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Dance
        • Charlo
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Round Butte
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Round Butte is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Butte
        • Lindisfarne
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Lindisfarne is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindisfarne
        • Saint Ignatius
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Big Arm
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Snowberg Court
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Snowberg Court is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snowberg Court
        • Spring Valley ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Spring Valley is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
        • Dayton
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Rollins
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Woods Bay
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Woods Bay is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Bay
        • Moiese
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Elmo
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Idlewise Court
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Idlewise Court is located in Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewise Court
        • Proctor
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Ravalli
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Flathead County
  • Missoula County
  • Sanders County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Salmon Prairie) 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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