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Nearest Communities to Dorsey,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>

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

Dorsey is located in Alger County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Alger County: Delta, Luce, Marquette & Schoolcraft.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 105 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dorsey. Of these communities, 73 are located in counties other than Alger 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 Dorsey (which is Alger 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 Dorsey

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

  • Alger County   (where Dorsey resides)
  • Delta County
  • Marquette County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.marquette.mi.us/
    • County Seat for Marquette:   Marquette
    • Note: Lake Superior lies to the north and Whitefish Bay to the northwest
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dorsey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dorsey.
      • Lawson
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Lawson is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawson
      • Dukes
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Dukes is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukes
      • Vick
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Vick is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vick
      • Maple Grove
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Maple Grove is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
      • Selma
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Selma is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
      • New Dalton
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Skandia Station
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Skandia Station is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skandia Station
      • Carlshend
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Skandia
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Yalmar
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Yalmar is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yalmar
      • Cedar Bank
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Cedar Bank is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bank
      • Green Garden
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Green Garden is located in Marquette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Garden
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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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dorsey) 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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