Nearest Communities to Island View,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Island View, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Island View:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
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.
Island View 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 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Island View. Of these communities, 4 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 Island View (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 Island View
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Island View resides)
- County Website: https://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 Island View ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Island View.
- Sha-Sha Resort
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Sha-Sha Resort is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sha-Sha Resort
- Thunderbird Resort
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Thunderbird Resort is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunderbird Resort
- Spring Lodge Resort and Marina
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Falls Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Falls Junction is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Junction
- Ranier
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jameson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Jameson is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jameson
- Ericsburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ericsburg is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ericsburg
- South International Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- International Falls
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Ray
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Nakoda
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Nakoda is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nakoda
- Pelland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Pelland is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelland
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Littlefork
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Laurel
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Laurel is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
- Loman
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Loman is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loman
- Lindford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lindford is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindford
- Wisner
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Wisner is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisner
- Indus
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Indus is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indus
- 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 Island View ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Island View.
- Kabetogama
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Arbutus
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Arbutus is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbutus
- Kettle Falls
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Kettle Falls is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Falls
- Ash Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ash Lake is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Lake
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Island View) 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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