Nearest Communities to Watkins,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Watkins, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Watkins:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Watkins is located in McCone County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McCone County: Dawson, Garfield, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Watkins. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than McCone 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 Watkins (which is McCone 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 Watkins
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- McCone County (where Watkins resides)
- County Website: https://mcconecountymt.gov/
- County Seat for McCone: Circle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Brockway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- White ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- White is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
- Paris ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Paris is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paris
- Circle
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Coal Creek ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Coal Creek is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Creek
- Rodgers Hill
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Rodgers Hill is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodgers Hill
- Lost Creek ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Lost Creek is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek
- Weldon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Weldon is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weldon
- Redwater ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Redwater is located in McCone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://dawsoncountymontana.org/
- County Seat for Dawson: Glendive
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Union ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Union is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Mink ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Mink is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink
- Corral Creek ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Corral Creek is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corral Creek
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://garfieldcountymt.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Purewater ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Purewater is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purewater
- Watson Flats ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Watson Flats is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson Flats
- Van Norman
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Van Norman is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Norman
- Prairie County
- County Website: https://prairiecounty.org/
- County Seat for Prairie: Terry
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Olanda ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Olanda is located in Prairie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olanda
- Crow Rock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Crow Rock is located in Prairie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Rock
- McCloud
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- McCloud is located in Prairie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCloud
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- Watkins) 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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