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Nearest Communities to Shelby,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 Shelby.<1>

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

Shelby is located in Toole County and is the County Seat.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Toole County: Glacier, Liberty & Pondera.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shelby. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Toole 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 Shelby (which is Toole 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 Shelby

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

  • Toole County   (where Shelby resides)
  • Glacier County
  • Liberty County
  • Pondera County
    • County Website:   https://www.ponderacountymontana.org/
    • County Seat for Pondera:   Conrad
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shelby   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shelby.
      • Lone Tree ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Lone Tree is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
      • Fowler
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Fowler is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler
      • Belgian Colony ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Belgian Colony is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belgian Colony
      • Ledger
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Wingina ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Wingina is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wingina
      • Abbott Lake ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Abbott Lake is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott Lake
      • Manson
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Manson is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
      • Williams
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Williams is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
      • Blair Crossing
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Blair Crossing is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Crossing
      • Valier
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Shields Crossing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Shields Crossing is located in Pondera County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields Crossing
      • Conrad
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Aubrey Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Aubrey Crossing is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aubrey Crossing
        • Kuka Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Kuka Crossing is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuka Crossing
        • Edwards Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Edwards Crossing is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Crossing
        • Midway ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Midway is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
        • Sollid ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Sollid is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sollid
        • Erickson ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Erickson is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erickson
        • New Miami Colony
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • New Miami Colony is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Miami Colony
        • Pondera Colony
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Pondera Colony is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pondera Colony
        • Gallup City
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Gallup City is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup City
        • Broadhead ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Broadhead is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadhead
        • Hagans Crossing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Hagans Crossing is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagans Crossing
        • Pierce Crossing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Pierce Crossing is located in Pondera County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Crossing

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 from Point A (ie- Shelby) 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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