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Nearest Communities to Okoboji,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Okoboji is located in Dickinson County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dickinson County: Clay, Emmet, Osceola & Jackson (MN).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 82 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Okoboji. Of these communities, 62 are located in counties other than Dickinson 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 Okoboji (which is Dickinson 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 Okoboji

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

  • Dickinson County   (where Okoboji resides)
    • County Website:   https://dickinsoncountyiowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Dickinson:   Spirit Lake
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Okoboji   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Okoboji.
      • Village East Resort
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Village East Resort is located in Dickinson County
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      • Egralharve
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Egralharve is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egralharve
      • Arnolds Park
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Crows Nest Resort
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Crows Nest Resort is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Nest Resort
      • Crescent Beach Resort
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Crescent Beach Resort is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Beach Resort
      • Wahpeton
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Wahpeton is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahpeton
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 353 people
      • Manhattan Beach Resort
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • West Okoboji
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • West Okoboji is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Okoboji
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 303 people
      • Spirit Lake
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Beaches Resort
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Beaches Resort is located in Dickinson County
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      • Triboji Beach
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Triboji Beach is located in Dickinson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triboji Beach
      • Montgomery
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Montgomery is located in Dickinson County
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        • Milford
          (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Orleans
          (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
          • Orleans is located in Dickinson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 591 people
        • Old Town
          (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
          • Old Town is located in Dickinson County
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        • Lake Park
          (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Superior
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Terril
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Hagerty
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Hagerty is located in Dickinson County
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        • Wallace
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Wallace is located in Dickinson County
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  • Clay County
    • County Website:   https://claycounty.iowa.gov/
    • County Seat for Clay:   Spencer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Okoboji   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Okoboji.
      • Fostoria
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Langdon
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Birchwood Estates
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Birchwood Estates is located in Clay County
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      • Spencer
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Everly
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Everly is located in Clay County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 541 people
      • Dickens
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Royal
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Greenville
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Rossie
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Rossie is located in Clay County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
      • Gillett Grove
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Maclay ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Maclay is located in Clay County
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      • Cornell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Webb
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Emmet County
    • County Website:   https://emmetcountyia.gov/
    • County Seat for Emmet:   Estherville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Okoboji   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Okoboji.
      • Raleigh
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Raleigh is located in Emmet County
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      • Estherville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Wallingford
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Huntington
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Huntington is located in Emmet County
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      • Gruver
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Gruver is located in Emmet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gruver
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
      • Bubona ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Bubona is located in Emmet County
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      • Maple Hill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Maple Hill is located in Emmet County
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      • Dolliver
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Hoprig
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Gridley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Gridley is located in Emmet County
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      • Halfa
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Halfa is located in Emmet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfa
  • O'Brien County
  • Osceola County
  • Palo Alto County
  • Jackson County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.jackson.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Jackson:   Jackson (MN)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Okoboji   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Okoboji.
      • Sioux Valley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Petersburg
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jackson
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Rost
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Rost is located in Jackson County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rost
      • Spafford
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Spafford is located in Jackson County (MN)
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      • Lakefield
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Alpha
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Alpha is located in Jackson County (MN)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
      • Okabena
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Bergen
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Bergen is located in Jackson County (MN)
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      • Miloma
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Miloma is located in Jackson County (MN)
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      • Heron Lake
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Heron Lake is located in Jackson County (MN)
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 643 people
      • Wilder
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Martin County
  • Nobles 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- Okoboji) 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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