Nearest Communities to Sumner,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sumner, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sumner:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 from Sumner.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sumner 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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sumner. 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 Sumner (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 Sumner
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Phillips County (where Sumner resides)
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- Nearest Communities to Sumner ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sumner.
- Loring Colony
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loring Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loring Colony
- Loring Colony is located in Phillips County
- Chapman
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north) - Loring
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loring
- Loring is located in Phillips County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loring <4>
- Lost Lake ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - Caldwell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Lowrane ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast) - Ynot ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Morgan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Whitewater
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitewater
- Whitewater is located in Phillips County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whitewater <4>
- Tattnall
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Dodson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dodson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
- Dodson is located in Phillips County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dodson <4>
- Wagner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
- Wagner is located in Phillips County
- Blaine County
- County Seat for Blaine: Chinook
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Sumner ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sumner.
- Turner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
- Turner is located in Blaine County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Turner <4>
- Turner Colony
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Turner Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner Colony
- Turner Colony is located in Blaine County
- Wing ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Hogeland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogeland
- Hogeland is located in Blaine County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hogeland <4>
- Coburg
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Silver Bow ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Bow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Bow
- Silver Bow is located in Blaine County
- Savoy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
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- Sumner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sumner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7797, Longitude: -108.1043 In this case, the coordinates for Sumner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |