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Nearest Communities to May City,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

May City is located in Osceola County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Osceola County: Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Jackson (MN) & Nobles (MN).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 81 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of May City. Of these communities, 74 are located in counties other than Osceola 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 May City (which is Osceola 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 May City

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

  • Osceola County   (where May City resides)
  • Clay County
  • Dickinson County
    • County Website:   https://dickinsoncountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Dickinson:   Spirit Lake
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to May City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from May City.
      • Hagerty
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Hagerty is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerty
      • Wallace
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Wallace is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
      • Lake Park
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Crescent Beach Resort
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Crescent Beach Resort is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Beach Resort
      • Wahpeton
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Wahpeton is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahpeton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 353 people
      • West Okoboji
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • West Okoboji is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Okoboji
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 303 people
      • Montgomery
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Montgomery is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery
      • Egralharve
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Egralharve is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egralharve
      • Manhattan Beach Resort
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Milford
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Old Town
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Old Town is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
      • Beaches Resort
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Beaches Resort is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaches Resort
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  • Emmet County
  • Lyon County
  • O'Brien County
    • County Website:   https://obriencounty.iowa.gov/
    • County Seat for O'Brien:   Primghar
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to May City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from May City.
      • Plessis
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Plessis is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plessis
      • Hartley
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Max
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Max is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Max
      • Moneta
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Moneta is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moneta
      • Sanborn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Evander
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Evander is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evander
      • Primghar
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Ritter
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Ritter is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritter
      • Archer
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Sheldon
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Gaza
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Gaza is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaza
      • Mapleside
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Mapleside is located in O'Brien County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleside
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        • Philby
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Philby is located in O'Brien County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philby
        • Sutherland
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Waterman
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Waterman is located in O'Brien County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterman
        • Paullina
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Paullina is located in O'Brien County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paullina
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 965 people
        • Calumet
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Calumet is located in O'Brien County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 155 people
        • Germantown
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Sioux County
    • County Website:   https://siouxcountyia.gov/
    • County Seat for Sioux:   Orange City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to May City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from May City.
      • Matlock
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Hospers
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Boyden
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Granville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Granville is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 303 people
      • Newkirk
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Newkirk is located in Sioux County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newkirk
  • Jackson County
  • Nobles County

Footnotes ...

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