Nearest Communities to Bigfork,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bigfork, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bigfork:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 Bigfork.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bigfork 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 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bigfork. Of these communities, 13 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 Bigfork (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 Bigfork
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Itasca County (where Bigfork resides)
- County Website: 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 ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Itasca County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Itasca County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Itasca County
- Nearest Communities to Bigfork ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bigfork.
- Effie
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Effie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie
- Effie is located in Itasca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Effie <4>
- Marcell
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marcell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcell
- Marcell is located in Itasca County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marcell <4>
- Talmoon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Talmoon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmoon
- Talmoon is located in Itasca County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Talmoon <4>
- Alder
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Jessie Lake
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jessie Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Lake
- Jessie Lake is located in Itasca County
- Spring Lake
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Lake
- Spring Lake is located in Itasca County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spring Lake <4>
- Wirt
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Bowstring
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - Pomroy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Dora Lake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
- Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Dora Lake
- From Bigfork to Dora Lake
- Suomi
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Oslund
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Continue List (10 more) ...
- Inger
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Max
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Max have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Max
- Max is located in Itasca County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Max <4>
- Togo
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Togo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
- Togo is located in Itasca County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Togo <4>
- Squaw Lake
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squaw Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Lake
- Squaw Lake is located in Itasca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Squaw Lake <4>
- Dunbar
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Deer River
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deer River have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer River
- Deer River is located in Itasca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deer River <4>
- Alvwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Bergville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Zemple
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Rosy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Inger
- Koochiching County
- County Website: www.co.koochiching.mn.us/
- County Seat for Koochiching: International Falls
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- Nearest Communities to Bigfork ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bigfork.
- Craigville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Craigville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigville
- Craigville is located in Koochiching County
- Wildwood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest) - Pinetop
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Gemmell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
- Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Gemmell
- From Bigfork to Gemmell
- Rauch
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Margie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Mizpah
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Northome
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Northome have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northome
- Northome is located in Koochiching County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Northome <4>
- Big Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Falls
- Big Falls is located in Koochiching County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Falls <4>
- Silverdale
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silverdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverdale
- Silverdale is located in Koochiching County
- Saint Louis County
- County Website: www.co.st-louis.mn.us/
- County Seat for Saint Louis: Duluth
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Nearest Communities to Bigfork ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bigfork.
- Bear River
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
- Bear River is located in Saint Louis County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Bear River
- From Bigfork to Bear River
- Celina
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Side Lake
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Side Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Side Lake
- Side Lake is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Side Lake <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Bigfork) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bigfork. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7447, Longitude: -93.6541 |
| <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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |