Nearest Communities to Woods Place,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Woods Place, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Woods Place:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 from Woods Place.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Woods Place is located in Petroleum County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Petroleum County: Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell & Phillips.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Woods Place. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Petroleum 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 Woods Place (which is Petroleum 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 Woods Place
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Petroleum County (where Woods Place resides)
- County Seat for Petroleum: Winnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Petroleum County
- Nearest Communities to Woods Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Woods Place.
- Muscleshell City ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Muscleshell City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscleshell City
- Muscleshell City is located in Petroleum County
- Dovetail ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Shay ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Cat Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
- Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
- Fergus County
- County Website: www.co.fergus.mt.us/
- County Seat for Fergus: Lewistown
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Fergus County
- Nearest Communities to Woods Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Woods Place.
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest) - Rocky Point ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Rocky Point is located in Fergus County
- Valentine
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Little Crooked ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Crooked have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Crooked
- Little Crooked is located in Fergus County
- Mobridge ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Garfield County
- County Seat for Garfield: Jordan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Garfield County
- Nearest Communities to Woods Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Woods Place.
- Smithson ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Mecaha ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast) - Ross Hall
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Metersville ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metersville
- Metersville is located in Garfield County
- Benzien
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Hazny ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Phillips County
- County Seat for Phillips: Malta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Phillips County
- Nearest Communities to Woods Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Woods Place.
- Legg ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Fourchette ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fourchette have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourchette
- Fourchette is located in Phillips County
- X Crossing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for X Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for X Crossing
- X Crossing is located in Phillips County
- Trine ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Midale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Leedy ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - First Creek ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for First Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Creek
- First Creek is located in Phillips County
- Regina ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Sun Prairie
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Prairie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
- Sun Prairie is located in Phillips County
- DY Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for DY Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DY Junction
- DY Junction is located in Phillips County
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 from Point A (ie- Woods Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Woods Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5025, Longitude: -108.1457 In this case, the coordinates for Woods Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |