Nearest Communities to Big Falls,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Falls, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Falls:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Big Falls is located in Koochiching County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Koochiching County: Beltrami, Itasca, Lake of the Woods & Saint Louis.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Falls. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Koochiching 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 Big Falls (which is Koochiching 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 Big Falls
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Big Falls resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.koochiching.mn.us/
- County Seat for Koochiching: International Falls
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Falls ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Falls.
- Grand Falls
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Grand Falls is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Falls
- Sturgeon River Landing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ben Linn Landing
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ben Linn Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Linn Landing
- Hendrickson Landing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Hendrickson Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendrickson Landing
- Margie
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Margie is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margie
- Wisner
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wisner is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisner
- Gates Corner
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Gates Corner is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates Corner
- Lindford
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Lindford is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindford
- Littlefork
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Gemmell
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
- Wildwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Wildwood is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
- Craigville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Craigville is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigville
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Laurel
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Laurel is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
- Loman
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Loman is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loman
- Forest Grove
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Forest Grove is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Pinetop
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Pinetop is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinetop
- Fairland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fairland is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairland
- Mizpah
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mizpah is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah
- Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
- Pelland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pelland is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelland
- Nakoda
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Nakoda is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nakoda
- Northome
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Indus
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Indus is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indus
- Ericsburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Ericsburg is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ericsburg
- Wayland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wayland is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
- Itasca County
- 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 Big Falls ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Falls.
- Effie
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Pomroy
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Pomroy is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomroy
- Bigfork
(30 miles [48.3 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Big Falls) 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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