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Nearest Communities to Debs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 Debs.<1>

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

Debs is located in Beltrami County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beltrami County: Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington & Roseau.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Debs. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Beltrami 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 Debs (which is Beltrami 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 Debs

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

  • Beltrami County   (where Debs resides)
  • Clearwater County
    • County Website:   https://www.clearwatercountymn.gov/
    • County Seat for Clearwater:   Bagley
    • Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Debs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Debs.
      • Leonard
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Clearbrook
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Shevlin
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Berner
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Berner is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berner
      • Gonvick
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Winsor
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Winsor is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winsor
      • Bagley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Weme
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Weme is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weme
      • Alida
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Alida is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alida
      • Ebro
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Ebro is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebro
      • Coffee Pot Landing
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Coffee Pot Landing is located in Clearwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Pot Landing
      • Minerva
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Mallard ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Mallard is located in Clearwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallard
        • Vern
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Vern is located in Clearwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vern
        • Bonga Landing
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Bonga Landing is located in Clearwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonga Landing
        • Rice Lake
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Rice Lake is located in Clearwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
        • Jack Pine
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Jack Pine is located in Clearwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Pine
  • Hubbard County
  • Mahnomen County
  • Polk County
    • County Website:   https://www.polkcountymn.gov/
    • County Seat for Polk:   Crookston
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Debs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Debs.
      • Gully
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Gully is located in Polk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gully
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
      • Olga
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Olga is located in Polk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
      • Trail
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Trail is located in Polk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
      • Lengby
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Lengby is located in Polk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lengby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
      • Fosston
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • West View Court
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • West View Court is located in Polk County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West View Court

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- Debs) 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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