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Nearest Communities to Virgelle,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

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.


Virgelle is located in Chouteau County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chouteau County: Blaine, Cascade, Fergus, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, Pondera & Teton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Virgelle. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Chouteau 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 Virgelle (which is Chouteau 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 Virgelle

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

  • Chouteau County   (where Virgelle resides)
    • County Website:   https://co.chouteau.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Chouteau:   Fort Benton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Virgelle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Virgelle.
      • Coal Banks Landing
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
        • Coal Banks Landing is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Banks Landing
      • Stranahan
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Stranahan is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stranahan
      • Verona
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Verona is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
      • Inga ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Inga is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inga
      • Lippard
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Lippard is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lippard
      • Ophir ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ophir is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
      • Big Sandy
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Chappell
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Chappell is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappell
      • Loma
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Kenilworth
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Kenilworth is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
      • Lonesome Prairie ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Lonesome Prairie is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonesome Prairie
      • Colony Bay ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Colony Bay is located in Chouteau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony Bay
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Hopp ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
          • Hopp is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopp
        • Rocky Crossing
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Rocky Crossing is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
        • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Pleasant Valley is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
        • Eagleton
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Eagleton is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleton
        • Fort Benton
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Box Elder
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Montague
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Montague is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montague
        • Boneau
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Boneau is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneau
        • Iliad
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Iliad is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iliad
        • Kershaw
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Kershaw is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kershaw
        • Geraldine
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Warrick
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Warrick is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrick
        • Patterson ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Patterson is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
        • Shonkin
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Shonkin is located in Chouteau County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shonkin
        • Tunis
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hill County
    • County Website:   https://hillcounty.us/
    • County Seat for Hill:   Havre
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Alberta lies to the northwest and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Virgelle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Virgelle.
      • Saint Pierre
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Brinkman ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Brinkman is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brinkman
      • Rocky Boy
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Rocky Boy is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Boy
      • Sangrey
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Sangrey is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sangrey
      • Azure
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Parker School
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Parker School is located in Hill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker School

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- Virgelle) 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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