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Nearest Communities to New Prairie,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from New Prairie.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of New Prairie is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Pope County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pope County: Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Stearns, Stevens, Swift & Todd.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of New Prairie. Of these communities, 35 are located in counties other than Pope County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for New Prairie (which is Pope 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 New Prairie

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

  • Pope County   (where New Prairie resides)
    • County Website:   www.mncounties3.org/pope/
    • County Seat for Pope:   Glenwood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to New Prairie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from New Prairie.
      • Cyrus
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cyrus have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cyrus
        • Cyrus is located in Pope County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cyrus <5>
      • Starbuck
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Lowry
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowry
        • Lowry is located in Pope County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 301 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lowry <5>
      • Long Beach
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Beach
        • Long Beach is located in Pope County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 417 people
      • Farwell
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farwell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farwell
        • Farwell is located in Pope County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
      • Glenwood
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Pine Hill Park
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Hill Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Hill Park
        • Pine Hill Park is located in Pope County
      • Terrace
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrace
        • Terrace is located in Pope County
      • Sedan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sedan have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedan
        • Sedan is located in Pope County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 50 people
      • Villard
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Grove Lake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Westport
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Big Stone County
  • Douglas County
  • Grant County
  • Kandiyohi County
  • Stearns County
    • County Website:   www.co.stearns.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Stearns:   Saint Cloud
    • Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to New Prairie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from New Prairie.
      • Brooten
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brooten have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooten
        • Brooten is located in Stearns County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 750 people
      • Padua
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Padua have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padua
        • Padua is located in Stearns County
  • Stevens County
  • Swift County
    • County Website:   www.swiftcounty.com/
    • County Seat for Swift:   Benson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to New Prairie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from New Prairie.
      • Clontarf
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clontarf have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clontarf
        • Clontarf is located in Swift County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 158 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clontarf <5>
      • Swift Falls
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Benson
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Fairfield
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
        • Fairfield is located in Swift County
      • Danvers
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Danvers have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danvers
        • Danvers is located in Swift County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
      • De Graff
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Graff have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Graff
        • De Graff is located in Swift County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
      • Holloway
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holloway have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holloway
        • Holloway is located in Swift County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
      • Murdock
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Todd County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Prairie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in New Prairie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6084, Longitude: -95.6398    
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about New Prairie, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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