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Nearest Communities to Saint James,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 starting from Saint James.<1>

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

Saint James is located in Charlevoix County and is the County Seat.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Charlevoix County: Antrim, Emmet & Otsego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Saint James. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Charlevoix 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 Saint James (which is Charlevoix 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 Saint James

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

  • Charlevoix County   (where Saint James resides)
    • County Website:   www.charlevoixcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Charlevoix:   Charlevoix
    • Note: Lake Michigan lies to the west
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint James   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint James.
      • Bonner Landing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bonner Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonner Landing
        • Bonner Landing is located in Charlevoix County
      • Martins Bluff
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Martins Bluff have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Bluff
        • Martins Bluff is located in Charlevoix County
      • Nomad
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Nomad. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nomad
        • Nomad is located in Charlevoix County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Nomad
        • From Saint James to Nomad
  • Emmet County
    • County Website:   www.co.emmet.mi.us/
    • County Seat for Emmet:   Petoskey
    • Note: Lake Michigan lies to the west and northwest, the Straits of Mackinac and Lake Huron to the northeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint James   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint James.
      • Good Hart
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Middle Village
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middle Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Village
        • Middle Village is located in Emmet County
      • Cross Village
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cross Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Village
        • Cross Village is located in Emmet County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cross Village <5>
      • Canby Corners
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canby Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canby Corners
        • Canby Corners is located in Emmet County
      • Stutsmanville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bliss
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bliss. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
        • Bliss is located in Emmet County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Bliss
        • From Saint James to Bliss
      • Marsh Corner
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Mackinac County
    • County Seat for Mackinac:   Saint Ignace
    • Note: Lake Michigan lies to the southwest, the Straits of Mackinac to the south, Mackinac Island and Lake Huron to the southeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Saint James   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Saint James.
      • Port Inland
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Naubinway
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Engadine
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Engadine have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Engadine
        • Engadine is located in Mackinac County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Engadine <5>
      • Gould City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Corinne
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corinne have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinne
        • Corinne is located in Mackinac County
      • Huntspur
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Huntspur. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntspur
        • Huntspur is located in Mackinac County
        • Huntspur has also been known as:
        • Hunt Spur
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Huntspur
        • From Saint James to Huntspur
      • Millecoquins
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Millecoquins have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millecoquins
        • Millecoquins is located in Mackinac County
      • Epoufette
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Gilchrist
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gilchrist have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilchrist
        • Gilchrist is located in Mackinac County
      • Garnet
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garnet have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garnet
        • Garnet is located in Mackinac County
      • Brevort
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brevort have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brevort
        • Brevort is located in Mackinac County
  • Schoolcraft County

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- Saint James) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Saint James. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.7508, Longitude: -85.5150    
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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