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Nearest Communities to Odin,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Odin.<1>

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

Odin is located in Watonwan County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Watonwan County: Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson & Martin.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 65 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Odin. Of these communities, 52 are located in counties other than Watonwan 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 Odin (which is Watonwan 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 Odin

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

  • Watonwan County   (where Odin resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.watonwan.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Watonwan:   Saint James
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odin.
      • Echols
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Echols is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echols
      • Butterfield
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Butterfield is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butterfield
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
      • South Branch
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • South Branch is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Branch
      • Saint James Place
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Saint James Place is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint James Place
      • Saint James
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Darfur
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Darfur is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darfur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
      • Sveadahl
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Sveadahl is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sveadahl
      • Grogan
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Lewisville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Lewisville is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
      • La Salle
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • La Salle is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Salle
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
      • Godahl
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Godahl is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godahl
      • Tenmile Corner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Tenmile Corner is located in Watonwan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile Corner
      • Madelia
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Blue Earth County
  • Brown County
  • Cottonwood County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.cottonwood.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Cottonwood:   Windom
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odin.
      • Mountain Lake
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Bingham Lake
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Windom
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Windom is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windom
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,403 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windom <3>
      • Delft
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Delft is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delft
      • Jeffers
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Jeffers is located in Cottonwood County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffers
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
  • Faribault County
  • Jackson County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.martin.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Fairmont
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Odin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Odin.
      • Ormsby
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ormsby is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ormsby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 121 people
      • Trimont
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Fox Lake
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Fox Lake is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
      • Sherburn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Truman
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Truman is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truman
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,028 people
      • Welcome
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Northrop
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Fairmont Estates
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Fairmont Estates is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairmont Estates
      • Fairmont
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Nashville Center
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Nashville Center is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville Center
      • Dunnell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Dunnell is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunnell
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
      • Granada
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Ceylon
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Imogene
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Imogene is located in Martin County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imogene
        • Wilbert
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Wilbert is located in Martin County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilbert
        • East Chain
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • East Chain is located in Martin County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Chain
  • Redwood County
  • Emmet County

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- Odin) 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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