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Nearest Communities to Wheelock Mill,
Listed County-By-County

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

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


Wheelock Mill is located in Aroostook County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 49 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wheelock Mill.

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 Wheelock Mill (which is Aroostook 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 Wheelock Mill

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

  • Aroostook County   (where Wheelock Mill resides)
    • County Website:   https://aroostook.me.us/
    • County Seat for Aroostook:   Houlton
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Quebec lies to the northwest and the Province of New Brunswick to the east
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    • Nearest Communities to Wheelock Mill   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wheelock Mill.
      • Jones Mill
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Jones Mill is located in Aroostook County
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      • Allagash
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Allagash is located in Aroostook County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
      • Cross Rock
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Cross Rock is located in Aroostook County
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      • Back Settlement
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Back Settlement is located in Aroostook County
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      • Saint Francis
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
      • Dickey
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Dickey is located in Aroostook County
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      • Winterville Plantation
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Winterville Plantation is located in Aroostook County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
      • Saint John Plantation
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Saint John Plantation is located in Aroostook County
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        • Population from the 2020 Census: 248 people
      • Quimby
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Quimby is located in Aroostook County
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      • Bradbury
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Bradbury is located in Aroostook County
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      • Burnt Mill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Burnt Mill is located in Aroostook County
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      • Eagle Lake
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
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        • High Landing
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
          • High Landing is located in Aroostook County
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        • McNally
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • McNally is located in Aroostook County
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        • Winterville
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • Winterville is located in Aroostook County
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        • Saint John
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
          • Saint John is located in Aroostook County
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        • Plaisted
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Plaisted is located in Aroostook County
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        • Wallagrass Station
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Wallagrass Station is located in Aroostook County
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        • Wallagrass
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
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          • Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
        • Plourde Mill
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Plourde Mill is located in Aroostook County
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        • Wheelock
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Wheelock is located in Aroostook County
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        • Soldier Pond
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • New Canada
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • New Canada is located in Aroostook County
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          • Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
        • Pierre
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Pierre is located in Aroostook County
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        • Violette Settlement
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Violette Settlement is located in Aroostook County
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        • Nixon
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Nixon is located in Aroostook County
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        • Fort Kent Village
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Fort Kent Village is located in Aroostook County
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        • Bradburys
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Bradburys is located in Aroostook County
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        • Fort Kent Mills
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Fort Kent
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Boat Landing Camp
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Boat Landing Camp is located in Aroostook County
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        • Buffalo
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Buffalo is located in Aroostook County
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        • Michigan Settlement
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Michigan Settlement is located in Aroostook County
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        • Portage Lake
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Portage Lake is located in Aroostook County
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          • Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people
        • Daigle
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Daigle is located in Aroostook County
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        • Russell Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Russell Crossing is located in Aroostook County
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        • Burnt Landing
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Burnt Landing is located in Aroostook County
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        • Portage
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ouellette
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Ouellette is located in Aroostook County
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        • Greenlaw Crossing
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Greenlaw Crossing is located in Aroostook County
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        • Guerette
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Guerette is located in Aroostook County
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        • McKeen Crossing
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • McKeen Crossing is located in Aroostook County
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        • Round Mountain
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Round Mountain is located in Aroostook County
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        • Nashville Plantation
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Nashville Plantation is located in Aroostook County
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          • Population from the 2020 Census: 42 people
        • Skerry
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Skerry is located in Aroostook County
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        • Carriveau Mill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Carriveau Mill is located in Aroostook County
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        • Upper Frenchville
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
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        • Hanford
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Hanford is located in Aroostook County
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        • Rand Landing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Rand Landing is located in Aroostook County
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Footnotes ...

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