Nearest Communities to Shay,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Shay, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Shay:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Shay.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Shay is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Petroleum County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Petroleum County: Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell & Phillips.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shay. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Petroleum 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 Shay (which is Petroleum 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 Shay
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Petroleum County (where Shay resides)
- County Website: https://petroleumcountymt.org/
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shay.
- Hoyle ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Hoyle is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyle
- Cat Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
- Jitney ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jitney is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jitney
- Winnett
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Weede ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Weede is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weede
- Dovetail ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Dovetail is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dovetail
- Flatwillow
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Flatwillow is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatwillow
- Teigen
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Kelley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Kelley is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelley
- Wallview ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Wallview is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallview
- Blakeslee ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Blakeslee is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeslee
- Muscleshell City ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Muscleshell City is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscleshell City
- Woods Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Woods Place is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
- Fergus County
- County Website: https://fergusmt.gov/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shay.
- Valentine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Valentine is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valentine
- Battrick ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Battrick is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battrick
- Grass Range
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
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- Nearest Communities to Shay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shay.
- Ross Hall
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Ross Hall is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Hall
- Mosby
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mecaha ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Mecaha is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecaha
- McTwiggan ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- McTwiggan is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McTwiggan
- Martin ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Martin is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
- Chimney Crossing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Chimney Crossing is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimney Crossing
- Benzien
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Benzien is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benzien
- Tindall ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Tindall is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
- Alice ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Alice is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
- Smithson ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Smithson is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithson
- Musselshell County
- County Website: https://musselshellcounty.org/
- County Seat for Musselshell: Roundup
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shay ...
- Flatwillow Colony
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Flatwillow Colony is located in Musselshell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatwillow Colony
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Shay) 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 Shay, 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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