Nearest Communities to Sun Prairie,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sun Prairie, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sun Prairie:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Sun Prairie.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sun Prairie 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 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sun Prairie. Of these communities, 5 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 Sun Prairie (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 Sun Prairie
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Phillips County (where Sun Prairie 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 Sun Prairie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sun Prairie.
- Box Elder ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast) - First Creek ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for First Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Creek
- First Creek is located in Phillips County
- X Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for X Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for X Crossing
- X Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Dryer Place
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dryer Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryer Place
- Dryer Place is located in Phillips County
- Regina ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest) - Fourchette ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fourchette have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourchette
- Fourchette is located in Phillips County
- Content
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Old Whitcomb Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Whitcomb Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Whitcomb Place
- Old Whitcomb Place is located in Phillips County
- Leedy ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast) - Legg ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Midale
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Phillips
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Trine ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Garfield County
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- Nearest Communities to Sun Prairie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sun Prairie.
- Metersville ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metersville
- Metersville is located in Garfield County
- Hazny ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Smithson ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Petroleum County
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- Nearest Communities to Sun Prairie ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sun Prairie.
- Muscleshell City ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Muscleshell City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscleshell City
- Muscleshell City is located in Petroleum County
- Woods Place
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woods Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
- Woods Place is located in Petroleum County
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sun Prairie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sun Prairie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8456, Longitude: -107.7465 In this case, the coordinates for Sun Prairie 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. |