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Nearest Communities to Herring,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Herring is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Sac County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sac County: Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Ida & Pocahontas.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 91 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Herring. Of these communities, 73 are located in counties other than Sac County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Herring (which is Sac 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 Herring

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

  • Sac County   (where Herring resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.saccountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Sac:   Sac City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Herring   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
      • McCloy ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • McCloy is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCloy
      • Brogan ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Brogan is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brogan
      • Wall Lake
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Sac City Junction ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Sac City Junction is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac City Junction
      • Wall Lake Station
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Wall Lake Station is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall Lake Station
      • Carnarvon
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Lake View
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Odebolt
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Hart
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Hart is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
      • Ulmer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Ulmer is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulmer
      • Brook Mount
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Brook Mount is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brook Mount
      • Auburn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
  • Audubon County
  • Buena Vista County
  • Calhoun County
  • Carroll County
    • County Website:   https://www.carrollcountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Carroll:   Carroll
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Herring   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
      • Breda
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Arcadia
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Arcadia is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 531 people
      • Mount Carmel
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Mount Carmel is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
      • Maple River
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Maple River is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple River
      • Kentner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Kentner is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentner
      • Halbur
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Halbur is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halbur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
      • Carroll Community Estates
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Carroll
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Lidderdale
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Roselle
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Manning
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Lanesboro
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Lanesboro is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanesboro
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Templeton
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Willey
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Glidden
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Benan ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Benan is located in Carroll County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benan
        • Carrollton
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Carrollton is located in Carroll County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrollton
        • Dedham
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Ralston
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Crawford County
    • County Website:   https://www.crawfordcounty.iowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Crawford:   Denison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Herring   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Herring.
      • Boyer River
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Boyer River is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer River
      • Boyer
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Kiron
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Vail
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Vail is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vail
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 413 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vail <4>
      • Westside
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Deloit
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Deloit is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deloit
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 254 people
      • Schleswig
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Denison
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Sunset Village
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Sunset Village is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
      • Kimze
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Kimze is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimze
      • Aspinwall
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Ricketts
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Ricketts is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricketts
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Manilla
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Kenwood
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Arion
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Arion is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arion
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
        • Buck Grove
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Buck Grove is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Grove
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
        • Charter Oak
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Astor
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Astor is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor
        • Bell
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Bell is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
        • Dow City
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Berne
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Berne is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Haley
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Haley is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haley
  • Ida County
  • Monona County
  • Pocahontas County
  • Shelby County
  • Woodbury County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Herring) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Herring, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.