Nearest Communities to Valentine,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Valentine, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Valentine:
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 starting from Valentine.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Valentine is located in Fergus County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fergus County: Blaine, Chouteau, Golden Valley, Judith Basin, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips & Wheatland.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Valentine. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Fergus 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 Valentine (which is Fergus 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 Valentine
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Fergus County (where Valentine resides)
- County Website: https://fergusmt.gov/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Valentine.
- Little Crooked ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Little Crooked was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Crooked
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Carroll was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
- Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Rocky Point was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Box Elder ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Box Elder was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Elder
- Mobridge ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Mobridge was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobridge
- Roy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Bell Ranch Colony
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bell Ranch Colony is also located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Ranch Colony
- Grass Range
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Chippewa ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Chippewa was located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippewa
- Ayers Ranch Colony
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ayers Ranch Colony is also located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayers Ranch Colony
- Fergus
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fergus is also located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fergus
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Valentine.
- Mecaha ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Mecaha was located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecaha
- Ross Hall
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Ross Hall is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Hall
- Smithson ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Smithson was located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithson
- Petroleum County
- County Website: https://petroleumcountymt.org/
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Valentine.
- Dovetail ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Dovetail was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dovetail
- Blakeslee ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Blakeslee was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blakeslee
- Woods Place
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Woods Place is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
- Shay ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shay was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shay
- Teigen
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Winnett
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Hoyle ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Hoyle was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyle
- Muscleshell City ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Muscleshell City was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscleshell City
- Cat Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
- Jitney ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jitney was located in Petroleum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jitney
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Valentine) 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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