Nearest Communities to Sarpy,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sarpy, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sarpy:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 south.
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 south 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 Sarpy.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Sarpy is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Big Horn County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Big Horn County: Carbon, Powder River, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone, Big Horn (WY) & Sheridan (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sarpy. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Big Horn County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Sarpy (which is Big Horn 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 Sarpy
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Big Horn County (where Sarpy resides)
- County Website: https://www.bighorncountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Big Horn: Hardin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sarpy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sarpy.
- McRae ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- McRae is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRae
- Muddy
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Muddy is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy
- Busby
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Old Ford Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Old Ford Place is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Ford Place
- Crow Agency
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dunmore
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Dunmore is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunmore
- Retreat Crossing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Retreat Crossing is located in Big Horn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retreat Crossing
- Garryowen
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Rosebud County
- County Website: https://rosebudcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Rosebud: Forsyth
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sarpy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sarpy.
- Castle Rock ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Castle Rock is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
- Saints Rest ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Saints Rest is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saints Rest
- Jimtown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Jimtown is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
- Colstrip
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Lame Deer
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Hopsonville ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Hopsonville is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopsonville
- Wood Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Wood Place is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Place
- Lee ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Lee is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Signal Butte ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Signal Butte is located in Rosebud County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal Butte
- Treasure County
- County Seat for Treasure: Hysham
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sarpy ...
- Burnt Creek ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Burnt Creek is located in Treasure County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Creek
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- Sarpy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sarpy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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