Nearest Communities to Sleeping Buffalo,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sleeping Buffalo, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sleeping Buffalo:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 from Sleeping Buffalo.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sleeping Buffalo is located in Phillips County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sleeping Buffalo. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Phillips 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 Sleeping Buffalo (which is Phillips 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 Sleeping Buffalo
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Phillips County (where Sleeping Buffalo resides)
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sleeping Buffalo ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sleeping Buffalo.
- Ashfield
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ashfield is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashfield
- Cree Crossing
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Cree Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cree Crossing
- Cole
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cole is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole
- Bowdoin
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bowdoin is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin
- Saco
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Bone Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Bone Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Crossing
- Tattnall
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Tattnall is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tattnall
- East Malta Colony
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- East Malta Colony is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Malta Colony
- Jordan Crossing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jordan Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Crossing
- Malta
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Whitewater
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Valleytown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Valleytown is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valleytown
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- Ynot ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Ynot is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ynot
- Loring
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wagner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Wagner is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
- Loring Colony
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Loring Colony is located in Phillips County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loring Colony
- Valley County
- County Website: https://www.valleycountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Valley: Glasgow
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sleeping Buffalo ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sleeping Buffalo.
- Beaverton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Beaverton is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaverton
- Miles Crossing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Miles Crossing is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles Crossing
- Hinsdale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Larb ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Larb is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larb
- Genevieve
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Genevieve is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genevieve
- Barr ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Barr is located in Valley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barr
- Vandalia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sleeping Buffalo) 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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