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Nearest Communities to Lake View,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Lake View is located in 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 86 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lake View. Of these communities, 68 are located in counties other than Sac 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 Lake View (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 Lake View

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

  • Sac County   (where Lake View resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.saccountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Sac:   Sac City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake View   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake View.
      • Sac City Junction ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Sac City Junction is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac City Junction
      • Wall Lake
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Carnarvon
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hart
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Hart is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
      • Ulmer
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Ulmer is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulmer
      • Pettis
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Pettis is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettis
      • Herring ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • McCloy ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • McCloy is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCloy
      • Grant City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Grant City is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City
      • Sac City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Auburn
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Brogan ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Brogan is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brogan
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Odebolt
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Early
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Wall Lake Station
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
          • Wall Lake Station is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall Lake Station
        • Brook Mount
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Brook Mount is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brook Mount
        • Nemaha
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
          • Nemaha is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nemaha
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
        • Schaller
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Buena Vista County
  • Calhoun County
  • Carroll County
    • County Website:   https://www.carrollcountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Carroll:   Carroll
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake View   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake View.
      • Breda
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Mount Carmel
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Mount Carmel is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
      • Arcadia
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Arcadia is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 531 people
      • Kentner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Kentner is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentner
      • Maple River
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Maple River is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple River
      • Lidderdale
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Carroll Community Estates
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Carroll
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Lanesboro
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Lanesboro is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanesboro
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
      • Halbur
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Halbur is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halbur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
      • Roselle
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Benan ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Benan is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benan
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Glidden
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Willey
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Manning
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Templeton
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Ralston
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Carrollton
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Carrollton is located in Carroll County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrollton
        • Dedham
          (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 Lake View   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake View.
      • Boyer River
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Boyer River is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer River
      • Boyer
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Kiron
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Westside
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Vail
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • 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 <3>
      • Deloit
        (19 miles [30.6 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
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Denison
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Sunset Village
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Sunset Village is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
      • Aspinwall
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Kimze
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Kimze is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimze
      • Ricketts
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ricketts is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricketts
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
      • Manilla
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Greene County
  • Ida County
  • Pocahontas 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lake View) 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.