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Nearest Communities to Shambo Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Shambo Springs.<1>

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


Shambo Springs 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 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shambo Springs. Of these communities, 20 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 Shambo Springs (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 Shambo Springs

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

  • Hill County   (where Shambo Springs 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 Shambo Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shambo Springs.
      • Shambo ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
        • Shambo was located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shambo
      • Parker School
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Parker School is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker School
      • Rocky Boy
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Rocky Boy is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Boy
      • Azure
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Azure is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Azure
      • Sangrey
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Sangrey is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sangrey
      • Saint Pierre
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Saint Pierre is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Pierre
      • Oscar ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Oscar was located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscar
      • Laredo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Laredo is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laredo
      • Saddle Butte
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Saddle Butte is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Butte
      • Herron
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Herron is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herron
      • Havre
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Havre is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havre
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,706 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Havre <3>
      • West Havre
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • West Havre is also located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Havre
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        • Beaver Creek
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Beaver Creek is also located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
        • Pacific Junction
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Pacific Junction is also located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pacific Junction
        • Cypress ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • Cypress was located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress
        • Burnham
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Burnham is also located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnham
        • Fresno
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Fresno is also located in Hill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresno
        • Kremlin
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Blaine County
    • County Website:   https://blainecounty-mt.gov/
    • County Seat for Blaine:   Chinook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shambo Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shambo Springs.
      • Bearpaw ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bearpaw was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearpaw
      • Hungry Hollow ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Hungry Hollow was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hungry Hollow
      • Lloyd
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Maddux
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Maddux is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maddux
      • Cleveland
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Cleveland is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Lohman
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Lohman is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lohman
      • Sour Dough Flat ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Sour Dough Flat was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sour Dough Flat
      • Riedel ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Riedel was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riedel
      • Ramburg ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Ramburg was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramburg
      • Chinook
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hosey ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Hosey was located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosey
  • Chouteau County
    • County Website:   https://co.chouteau.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Chouteau:   Fort Benton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shambo Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shambo Springs.
      • Boneau
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Boneau is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneau
      • Warrick
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Warrick is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrick
      • Box Elder
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Rocky Crossing
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Rocky Crossing is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
      • Big Sandy
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Eagleton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Eagleton is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleton
      • Verona
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Verona is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
      • Lonesome Prairie ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Lonesome Prairie was located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonesome Prairie
      • Hopp ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Hopp was located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopp

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- Shambo Springs) 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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