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Nearest Communities to Cartwright,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Cartwright is located in McKenzie County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKenzie County: Richland (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Mountrail & Williams.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cartwright. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than McKenzie 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 Cartwright (which is McKenzie 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 Cartwright

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

  • McKenzie County   (where Cartwright resides)
  • Williams County
  • Richland County
    • County Website:   https://www.richland.org/
    • County Seat for Richland:   Sidney (MT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cartwright   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cartwright.
      • Fairview
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Ludington
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Ludington is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludington
      • Ridgelawn
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Ridgelawn is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgelawn
      • Wooley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Wooley is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooley
      • Nohly
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Nohly is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nohly
      • Fischer Park
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Fischer Park is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fischer Park
      • Sidney
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Riverview
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Riverview is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
      • Newlon Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Newlon Junction is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlon Junction
      • Brorson ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Brorson is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brorson
      • Sioux Pass
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Sioux Pass is located in Richland County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Pass
      • Piche
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Girard
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Girard is located in Richland County (MT)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
        • Crane
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Sears ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Sears is located in Richland County (MT)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
        • Hoffmanville
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Hoffmanville is located in Richland County (MT)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffmanville
        • Andes
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Andes is located in Richland County (MT)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andes
        • Midway
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Midway is located in Richland County (MT)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
  • Roosevelt County
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Wolf Point (MT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cartwright   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cartwright.
      • Fort Union ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Fort Union is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Union
      • Snowden
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Snowden is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snowden
      • Lakeside
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Lakeside is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
      • Bainville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Lanark
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Lanark is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanark

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 from Point A (ie- Cartwright) 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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