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Nearest Communities to Castle Rock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

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

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

Castle Rock is located in Butte County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Butte County: Carter (MT), Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins & Crook (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Castle Rock. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Butte 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 Castle Rock (which is Butte 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 Castle Rock

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

  • Butte County   (where Castle Rock resides)
    • County Seat for Butte:   Belle Fourche
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Castle Rock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Castle Rock.
      • Hoover
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
        • Hoover is located in Butte County
      • Arpan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arpan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arpan
        • Arpan is located in Butte County
      • Newell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell
        • Newell is located in Butte County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 603 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newell <4>
      • Nisland
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nisland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nisland
        • Nisland is located in Butte County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nisland <4>
      • Vale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Empire
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Empire have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
        • Empire is located in Butte County
      • Fruitdale
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fruitdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitdale
        • Fruitdale is located in Butte County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fruitdale <4>
      • Snoma ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Snoma have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snoma
        • Snoma is located in Butte County
      • Belle Fourche
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belle Fourche have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Fourche
        • Belle Fourche is located in Butte County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,742 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belle Fourche <4>
      • Jolly
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jolly have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
        • Jolly is located in Butte County
  • Harding County
  • Meade County
  • Perkins 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Castle Rock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Castle Rock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9644, Longitude: -103.4242       In this case, the coordinates for Castle Rock 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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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