Nearest Communities to Grand Marais,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Grand Marais, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Grand Marais:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 from Grand Marais.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Grand Marais 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grand Marais. Of these communities, 19 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 Grand Marais (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 Grand Marais
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Alger County (where Grand Marais resides)
- County Website: https://www.algercounty.gov/
- County Seat for Alger: Munising
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Grand Marais ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Marais.
- Green Haven
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Green Haven is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Haven
- Sunrise Landing
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sunrise Landing is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Landing
- Sullivans Landing
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Sullivans Landing is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivans Landing
- Melstrand
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Melstrand is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melstrand
- Myren
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Myren is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myren
- Williams Crossing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Williams Crossing is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Crossing
- Van Meer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Van Meer is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Meer
- Star
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Star is located in Alger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star
- Luce County
- County Website: https://www.lucecountymi.com/
- County Seat for Luce: Newberry
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Grand Marais ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Marais.
- Deer Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Deer Park is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Park
- Pine Stump Junction
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Pine Stump Junction is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Stump Junction
- Danaher
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Danaher is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danaher
- Eightmile Corner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Eightmile Corner is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eightmile Corner
- Laketon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Laketon is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
- McMillan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Carpenter Landing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Carpenter Landing is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter Landing
- Fourmile Corner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Fourmile Corner is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Corner
- McMillan Corner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- McMillan Corner is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMillan Corner
- Natalie
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Natalie is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Natalie
- Dollarville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Dollarville is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollarville
- Helmer
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Helmer is located in Luce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helmer
- Schoolcraft County
- County Website: https://www.schoolcraftcounty.net/
- County Seat for Schoolcraft: Manistique
- Note: Lake Michigan lies to the south
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Grand Marais ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Marais.
- Lavender Corner
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Lavender Corner is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavender Corner
- Seney
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Cusino
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Cusino is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusino
- Walsh
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Walsh is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walsh
- Creighton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Creighton is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creighton
- Pines
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pines is located in Schoolcraft County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pines
- Germfask
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Grand Marais) 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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