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Nearest Communities to Comfrey,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>

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

Comfrey is primarily located in Brown County. A portion of Comfrey extends into Cottonwood County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brown County: Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville & Watonwan.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 61 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Comfrey. Of these communities, 47 are located in counties other than Brown 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 Comfrey (which is Brown 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 Comfrey

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

  • Brown County   (where Comfrey resides)
  • Blue Earth County
  • Cottonwood County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.cottonwood.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Cottonwood:   Windom
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comfrey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comfrey.
      • Mountain Lake
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Delft
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Delft is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delft
      • Jeffers
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Jeffers is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffers
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
      • Bingham Lake
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Windom
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Windom is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windom
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,403 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windom <3>
      • Storden
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Westbrook
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Jackson County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.martin.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Fairmont
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comfrey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comfrey.
      • Ormsby
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ormsby is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ormsby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 121 people
      • Trimont
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Truman
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Truman is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truman
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,028 people
  • Nicollet County
  • Redwood County
    • County Website:   https://redwoodcounty-mn.us/
    • County Seat for Redwood:   Redwood Falls
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comfrey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comfrey.
      • Sanborn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Lamberton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Clements
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Clements is located in Redwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clements
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 140 people
      • Wanda
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Morgan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Morgan is located in Redwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 832 people
      • Rowena
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Rowena is located in Redwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowena
      • Revere
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Gilfillan
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Gilfillan is located in Redwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilfillan
      • Wabasso
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Walnut Grove
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Renville County
  • Watonwan County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.watonwan.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Watonwan:   Saint James
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Comfrey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Comfrey.
      • Darfur
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Darfur is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darfur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
      • Sveadahl
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Sveadahl is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sveadahl
      • Butterfield
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Butterfield is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butterfield
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
      • Godahl
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Godahl is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godahl
      • Saint James Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Saint James Place is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint James Place
      • La Salle
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • La Salle is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Salle
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
      • Saint James
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Echols
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Echols is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echols
      • Odin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Grogan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • South Branch
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • South Branch is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Branch
      • Madelia
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Tenmile Corner
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Tenmile Corner is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile Corner
      • Lewisville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Lewisville is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people

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- Comfrey) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.