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Nearest Communities to Valleytown,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 north.

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 north 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.<1>

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


Valleytown 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 Valleytown. Of these communities, 8 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 Valleytown (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 Valleytown

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

  • Phillips County   (where Valleytown resides)
    • County Seat for Phillips:   Malta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Valleytown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Valleytown.
      • Bone Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Bone Crossing is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Crossing
      • Jordan Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Jordan Crossing is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Crossing
      • Tattnall
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Tattnall is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tattnall
      • Cole
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Cole is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole
      • Saco
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Saco is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saco
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saco <3>
      • Cree Crossing
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Cree Crossing is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cree Crossing
      • Whitewater
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Ashfield
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Ashfield is also located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashfield
      • Greve ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Greve was located in Phillips County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greve
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Sleeping Buffalo
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Sleeping Buffalo is also located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleeping Buffalo
        • Ynot ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Ynot was located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ynot
        • Bowdoin
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Bowdoin is also located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin
        • Loring
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • East Malta Colony
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • East Malta Colony is also located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Malta Colony
        • Lowrane ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Lowrane was located in Phillips County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowrane
  • Valley County
    • County Website:   https://www.valleycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Glasgow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Valleytown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Valleytown.
      • Genevieve
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Genevieve is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genevieve
      • Barr ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Barr was located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barr
      • Miles Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Miles Crossing is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles Crossing
      • Thoeny
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Thoeny is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoeny
      • Beaverton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Beaverton is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaverton
      • Hinsdale
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Kansas Flat ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Kansas Flat was located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kansas Flat
      • Vandalia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Valleytown) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.