Nearest Communities to Grand Falls,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Grand Falls, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Grand Falls:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Grand Falls.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Grand 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 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grand Falls. Of these communities, 2 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 Grand 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 Grand Falls
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Grand Falls 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 ...
- 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 Grand Falls ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Falls.
- Big Falls
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- 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>
- Sturgeon River Landing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sturgeon River Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgeon River Landing
- Sturgeon River Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Ben Linn Landing
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ben Linn Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Linn Landing
- Ben Linn Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Hendrickson Landing
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hendrickson Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendrickson Landing
- Hendrickson Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Wisner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast) - Margie
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest) - Lindford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Gates Corner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gates Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates Corner
- Gates Corner is located in Koochiching County
- Littlefork
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Littlefork have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlefork
- Littlefork is located in Koochiching County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Littlefork <4>
- Loman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Gemmell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
- Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
- Laurel
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Continue List (12 more) ...
- Wildwood
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Craigville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- 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
- Pelland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Fairland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest) - Pinetop
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Forest Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Forest Grove is located in Koochiching County
- Nakoda
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Mizpah
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Indus
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north) - Ericsburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ericsburg
- Ericsburg is located in Koochiching County
- Ray
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ray have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ray
- Ray is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ray <4>
- Wayland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wildwood
- Itasca County
- 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 Grand Falls ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Falls.
- Effie
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- 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>
- Pomroy
(27 miles [43.5 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 from Point A (ie- Grand Falls) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Grand Falls. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1986, Longitude: -93.7927 In this case, the coordinates for Grand Falls 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. |