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Nearest Communities to Alder,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 Alder.<1>

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

Alder is located in Itasca County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Itasca County: Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Koochiching & Saint Louis.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 52 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alder. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Itasca 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 Alder (which is Itasca 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 Alder

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

  • Itasca County   (where Alder resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.itasca.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Itasca:   Grand Rapids
    • Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alder   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alder.
      • Marcell
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Talmoon
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Bowstring
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Bowstring is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
      • Jessie Lake
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Jessie Lake is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Lake
      • Suomi
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Suomi is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suomi
      • Spring Lake
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Bigfork
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Inger
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Inger is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inger
      • Deer River
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Oslund
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Oslund is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oslund
      • Wirt
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Wirt is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wirt
      • Zemple
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Zemple is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zemple
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
      • Continue List   (33 more) ...
        • Max
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Effie
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Dora Lake
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
        • Ball Club
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Ball Club is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ball Club
        • Squaw Lake
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Bass Brook Court
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Bass Brook Court is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bass Brook Court
        • Pomroy
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Pomroy is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomroy
        • Bass Brook
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Bass Brook is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bass Brook
        • Cohasset
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Canisteo
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Canisteo is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canisteo
        • Coleraine
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Taconite
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Taconite is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taconite
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 629 people
        • Grand Rapids
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Lakeview Terrace
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Lakeview Terrace is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Terrace
        • Bovey
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Holman
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Holman is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holman
        • Silverwood
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Silverwood is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverwood
        • La Prairie
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • La Prairie is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Prairie
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 661 people
        • Marble
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Dunbar
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Dunbar is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar
        • Calumet
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Cort
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Cort is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cort
        • Gunn
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Gunn is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn
        • Cooley
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Cooley is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooley
        • Jurgenson
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Jurgenson is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jurgenson
        • Kevin
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Kevin is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
        • Alvwood
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Alvwood is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvwood
        • Nashwauk
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Pengilly
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Rosy
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Rosy is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosy
        • Bennett
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Bennett is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Bergville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Bergville is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergville
        • Blackberry
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Blackberry is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry
  • Cass County
  • Koochiching County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Alder) 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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