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Nearest Communities to Wisdom,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 from Wisdom.<1>

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

Wisdom is located in Beaverhead County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beaverhead County: Clark (ID), Fremont (ID), Lemhi (ID), Deer Lodge, Madison, Ravalli & Silver Bow.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wisdom. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Beaverhead 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 Wisdom (which is Beaverhead 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 Wisdom

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

  • Beaverhead County   (where Wisdom resides)
    • County Seat for Beaverhead:   Dillon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wisdom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wisdom.
      • Moosehorn ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moosehorn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moosehorn
        • Moosehorn is located in Beaverhead County
      • Jackson
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Elkhorn Hot Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhorn Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Hot Springs
        • Elkhorn Hot Springs is located in Beaverhead County
      • Gloss Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gloss Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gloss Place
        • Gloss Place is located in Beaverhead County
      • Coolidge ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coolidge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge
        • Coolidge is located in Beaverhead County
      • Elkhorn ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Elkhorn. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
        • Elkhorn is located in Beaverhead County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Elkhorn
        • From Wisdom to Elkhorn
      • Polaris
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Lion City ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lion City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lion City
        • Lion City is located in Beaverhead County
      • Wise River
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Patterson Corner
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Patterson Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson Corner
        • Patterson Corner is located in Beaverhead County
      • Dewey
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dewey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
        • Dewey is located in Beaverhead County
  • Deer Lodge County
    • County Seat for Deer Lodge:   Anaconda
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wisdom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wisdom.
      • Fishtrap
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fishtrap have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishtrap
        • Fishtrap is located in Deer Lodge County
      • French Gulch ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for French Gulch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Gulch
        • French Gulch is located in Deer Lodge County
  • Ravalli County
  • Lemhi County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wisdom) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wisdom. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6163, Longitude: -113.4503    
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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