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Nearest Communities to Devils Tower,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.<1>

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

Devils Tower is located in Crook County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crook County: Carter (MT), Powder River (MT), Butte (SD), Lawrence (SD), Campbell & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Devils Tower. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Crook 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 Devils Tower (which is Crook 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 Devils Tower

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

  • Crook County   (where Devils Tower resides)
    • County Seat for Crook:   Sundance
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Devils Tower   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Devils Tower.
      • Carlile Junction
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carlile Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlile Junction
        • Carlile Junction is located in Crook County
      • Hulett
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Carlile
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Oshoto
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oshoto have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oshoto
        • Oshoto is located in Crook County
      • New Haven
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Haven
        • New Haven is located in Crook County
      • Alva
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Seely
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seely have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seely
        • Seely is located in Crook County
      • Pine Haven
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Linden
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Linden. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden
        • Linden is located in Crook County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Linden
        • From Devils Tower to Linden
      • Sundance
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Farrall
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farrall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farrall
        • Farrall is located in Crook County
      • Mona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mona
        • Mona is located in Crook County
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
  • Campbell County
  • Weston County

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- Devils Tower) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Devils Tower. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5886, Longitude: -104.6986    
<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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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