Nearest Communities to Central,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Central, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Central:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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 Central.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Central 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 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Central. Of these communities, 9 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 Central (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 Central
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Central resides)
- 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 ...
- Nearest Communities to Central ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Central.
- Border
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border
- Border is located in Koochiching County
- Frontier
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frontier have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier
- Frontier is located in Koochiching County
- Birchdale
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Birchdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchdale
- Birchdale is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Birchdale <4>
- Wayland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wayland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
- Wayland is located in Koochiching County
- Manitou
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manitou have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manitou
- Manitou is located in Koochiching County
- Fairland
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairland
- Fairland is located in Koochiching County
- Indus
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indus
- Indus is located in Koochiching County
- Loman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loman
- Loman is located in Koochiching County
- Lake of the Woods County
- County Website: www.co.lake-of-the-woods.mn.us/
- County Seat for Lake of the Woods: Baudette
- Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the northwest, the Lake of the Woods lies to the north and the Canadian Province of Ontario to the northeast
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Central ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Central.
- Clementson
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementson
- Clementson is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Baudette
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Pitt
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitt
- Pitt is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Hackett
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hackett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackett
- Hackett is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Wheelers Point
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheelers Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelers Point
- Wheelers Point is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Carp
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carp have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carp
- Carp is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Graceton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Graceton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graceton
- Graceton is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Faunce
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Faunce have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faunce
- Faunce is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Williams
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Williams is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williams <4>
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Central) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Central. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.6994, Longitude: -94.3430 In this case, the coordinates for Central have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
<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. |