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Nearest Communities to Butte,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Butte.<1>

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

Butte is located in McLean County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McLean County: Burleigh, Dunn, McHenry, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Sheridan & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Butte. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than McLean 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 Butte (which is McLean 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 Butte

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

  • McLean County   (where Butte resides)
  • McHenry County
    • County Website:   https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
    • County Seat for McHenry:   Towner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Butte   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Butte.
      • Kongsberg
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Kongsberg is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kongsberg
      • Kief
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Balfour
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Bergen
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Bergen is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
      • Drake
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Voltaire
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Rangeley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rangeley is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangeley
      • Karlsruhe
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Guthrie
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Guthrie is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guthrie
      • Anamoose
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Verendrye
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Verendrye is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye
      • Velva
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Velva is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Velva
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,185 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Velva <3>
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Funston
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Funston is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
        • Simcoe
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Simcoe is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simcoe
        • Genoa
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Genoa is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
        • Granville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pierce County
  • Sheridan County
  • Ward 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- Butte) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.