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Nearest Communities to Grand Rapids,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.<1>

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

Grand Rapids is located in Itasca County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Itasca County: Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Koochiching & Saint Louis.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 65 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grand Rapids. Of these communities, 25 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 Grand Rapids (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 Grand Rapids

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

  • Itasca County   (where Grand Rapids resides)
    • County Website:   https://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   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grand Rapids   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Rapids.
      • La Prairie
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Gunn
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Gunn is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn
      • Lakeview Terrace
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Lakeview Terrace is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Terrace
      • Canisteo
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Canisteo is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canisteo
      • Bass Brook Court
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Bass Brook Court is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bass Brook Court
      • Bass Brook
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Bass Brook is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bass Brook
      • Cohasset
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Coleraine
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bovey
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Blackberry
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Blackberry is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry
      • Holman
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Holman is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holman
      • Taconite
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Taconite is located in Itasca County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taconite
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 629 people
      • Continue List   (28 more) ...
        • Philbin
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Philbin is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philbin
        • Silverwood
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Silverwood is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverwood
        • Marble
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Calumet
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Zemple
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
          • Zemple is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zemple
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
        • Cort
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Cort is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cort
        • Deer River
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Marrier Estates
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Marrier Estates is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marrier Estates
        • Warba
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jurgenson
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Jurgenson is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jurgenson
        • Pengilly
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cooley
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Cooley is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooley
        • Kevin
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Kevin is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
        • Swan River
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Goodland
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Goodland is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
        • Suomi
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Suomi is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suomi
        • Nashwauk
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Ball Club
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Ball Club is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ball Club
        • Bengal
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Bengal is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
        • Wawina
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Alder
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
          • Alder is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
        • Keewatin
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Keewatin is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keewatin
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,010 people
        • Bennett
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Bennett is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Bowstring
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Bowstring is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
        • Marcell
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Talmoon
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Jessie Lake
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Jessie Lake is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Lake
        • Inger
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Inger is located in Itasca County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inger
  • Aitkin County
  • Cass County
  • Saint Louis County
    • County Website:   https://www.stlouiscountymn.gov/
    • County Seat for Saint Louis:   Duluth
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grand Rapids   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grand Rapids.
      • Silica
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Silica is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silica
      • Stevenson
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Stevenson is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevenson
      • Kelly Lake
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Kelly Lake is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Lake
      • Hull
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Hull is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hull
      • Kerr
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Kerr is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerr
      • Leetonia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Leetonia is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leetonia
      • Hartley Spur
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Hartley Spur is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartley Spur
      • Riley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Riley is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riley
      • Mahoning
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Mahoning is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahoning
      • Island
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Island is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island
      • Hibbing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Scranton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Scranton is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scranton

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grand Rapids) 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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