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Nearest Communities to Stryker,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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


Stryker is located in Lincoln County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Bonner (ID), Boundary (ID), Flathead & Sanders.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Stryker. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Stryker (which is Lincoln 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 Stryker

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Stryker resides)
    • County Website:   https://lincolncountymt.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Libby
    • Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stryker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stryker.
      • Fish Lake ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Fish Lake is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fish Lake
      • Trego
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Ant Flat
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Ant Flat is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ant Flat
      • Eagle Lake Ranch
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Eagle Lake Ranch is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Lake Ranch
      • Fortine
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Eureka
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Mills Springs ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Mills Springs is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mills Springs
      • Tobacco ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Tobacco is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobacco
      • Ural ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Ural is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ural
      • Rexford
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Volcour ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Stonehill ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Stonehill is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonehill
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Riverside ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Riverside is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
        • Roosville
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Roosville is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosville
        • Warland ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Yarnell
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Yarnell is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarnell
        • Gateway ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Gateway is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gateway
  • Flathead County
    • County Website:   https://flatheadcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Flathead:   Kalispell
    • Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stryker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stryker.
      • Radnor
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Radnor is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radnor
      • Olney
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Lupfer
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Lupfer is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lupfer
      • Polebridge
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Ford
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Ford is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
      • Reuter ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Reuter is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reuter
      • Vista
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Vista is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
      • Trailcreek
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Trailcreek is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailcreek
      • Wurtz Hill
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Wurtz Hill is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wurtz Hill
      • Round Prairie
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Round Prairie is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Prairie
      • Ramsey ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ramsey is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsey
      • Happy Haven
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Happy Haven is located in Flathead County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Haven
      • Whitefish
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Rhodes
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Stryker) 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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