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Nearest Communities to Rider,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Rider.<1>

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

Rider is located in Golden Valley County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Golden Valley County: Fallon (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, McKenzie & Slope.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rider. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Golden Valley 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 Rider (which is Golden 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 Rider

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

  • Golden Valley County   (where Rider resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.goldenvalleycounty.org/
    • County Seat for Golden Valley:   Beach
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rider   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rider.
      • De Mores
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • De Mores is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Mores
      • Sentinel Butte
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Chama
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Chama is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chama
      • Ekre
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ekre is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ekre
      • Thelan
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Thelan is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thelan
      • Beach
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Beach is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,026 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beach <3>
      • Alpha
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Alpha is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
      • Golva
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Golva is located in Golden Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golva
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Golva <3>
  • Billings County
    • County Website:   https://www.billingscountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Billings:   Medora
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rider   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rider.
      • Medora
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Scoria Point
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Scoria Point is located in Billings County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scoria Point
      • Sully Springs
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Sully Springs is located in Billings County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sully Springs
      • Fryburg
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Fryburg is located in Billings County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fryburg
      • Six Mile Corner
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Six Mile Corner is located in Billings County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Six Mile Corner
      • Gorham
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Gorham is located in Billings County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorham
      • Fairfield
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Slope County
  • Stark County
  • Wibaux County
    • County Seat for Wibaux:   Wibaux (MT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rider   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rider.
      • Yates
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Yates is located in Wibaux County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yates
      • Saint Phillip
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Saint Phillip is located in Wibaux County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Phillip
      • Wibaux
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Wibaux is located in Wibaux County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wibaux
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 575 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wibaux <3>
      • Carlyle
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Carlyle is located in Wibaux County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlyle

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rider) 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.