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Nearest Communities to Odebolt,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Odebolt.<1>

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

Odebolt 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 83 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Odebolt. Of these communities, 65 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 Odebolt (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 Odebolt

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

  • Sac County   (where Odebolt resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.saccountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Sac:   Sac City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odebolt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odebolt.
      • Wall Lake Station
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Wall Lake Station is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall Lake Station
      • Brook Mount
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Brook Mount is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brook Mount
      • Brogan ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Brogan is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brogan
      • Herring ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • McCloy ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • McCloy is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCloy
      • Wall Lake
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Sac City Junction ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Sac City Junction is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac City Junction
      • Lake View
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Early
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Carnarvon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Hart
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Hart is located in Sac County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
      • Schaller
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Ulmer
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • Ulmer is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulmer
        • Sac City
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Pettis
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Pettis is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettis
        • Nemaha
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Nemaha is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nemaha
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
        • Grant City
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Grant City is located in Sac County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City
        • Auburn
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Buena Vista County
  • Calhoun County
  • Carroll County
    • County Website:   https://www.carrollcountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Carroll:   Carroll
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odebolt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odebolt.
      • Breda
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Arcadia
        (18 miles [29 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
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Mount Carmel is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
      • Maple River
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Maple River is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple River
      • Kentner
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Kentner is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentner
      • Halbur
        (25 miles [40.2 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
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Carroll
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Lidderdale
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Roselle
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Manning
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Lanesboro
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Lanesboro is located in Carroll County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanesboro
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
  • Cherokee County
  • Crawford County
    • County Website:   https://www.crawfordcounty.iowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Crawford:   Denison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odebolt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odebolt.
      • Boyer River
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Boyer River is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer River
      • Boyer
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Kiron
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Schleswig
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Deloit
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Deloit is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deloit
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 254 people
      • Vail
        (17 miles [27.4 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 <3>
      • Westside
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Denison
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Ricketts
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Ricketts is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricketts
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
      • Kimze
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Kimze is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimze
      • Sunset Village
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Sunset Village is located in Crawford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
      • Charter Oak
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
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        • Kenwood
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Berne
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Berne is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
        • Arion
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Arion is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arion
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
        • Bell
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Bell is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
        • Aspinwall
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Buck Grove
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Buck Grove is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Grove
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
        • Manilla
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Dow City
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Astor
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Astor is located in Crawford County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor
  • Ida County
  • Monona County
  • Pocahontas County
  • Woodbury 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- Odebolt) 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.