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Nearest Communities to Wild Rose,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Wild Rose.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Wild Rose is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Valley County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Valley County: Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Phillips & Roosevelt.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wild Rose. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Valley County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Wild Rose (which is Valley 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 Wild Rose

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

  • Valley County   (where Wild Rose resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.valleycountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Glasgow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wild Rose   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wild Rose.
      • Baylor
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Baylor is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baylor
      • Avondale ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Avondale is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avondale
      • Larslan
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Midway ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Midway is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Kansas Flat ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Kansas Flat is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kansas Flat
      • Glentana
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Opheim
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Richland
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Marie
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Roanwood
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Roanwood is located in Valley County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roanwood
        • Rose Hill ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Rose Hill is located in Valley County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
        • Kaiver ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Kaiver is located in Valley County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaiver
        • Lustre
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Thoeny
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Thoeny is located in Valley County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoeny
        • Bakers ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Bakers is located in Valley County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakers
  • Daniels County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Wild Rose) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Wild Rose, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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