Nearest Communities to Prairie Portage,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Prairie Portage, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Prairie Portage:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Prairie Portage.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Prairie Portage is located in Lake County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake County: Cook, Saint Louis, Ashland (WI), Bayfield (WI) & Douglas (WI).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairie Portage. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Lake 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 Prairie Portage (which is Lake 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 Prairie Portage
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lake County (where Prairie Portage resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.lake.mn.us/
- County Seat for Lake: Two Harbors
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Prairie Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Portage.
- Silver Rapids
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Silver Rapids is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Rapids
- Forest Center
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Forest Center is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Center
- Section Thirty
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Section Thirty is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Section Thirty
- White Iron
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- White Iron is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Iron
- Martin Landing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Martin Landing is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Landing
- Wheeler Landing
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Wheeler Landing is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Landing
- Sawbill Landing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Sawbill Landing is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawbill Landing
- Kelly Landing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Kelly Landing is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Landing
- Happy Wanderer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Happy Wanderer is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Wanderer
- Isabella
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- 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 Prairie Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Portage.
- Winton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Winton is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
- Ely
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Ely is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,325 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <3>
- Burntside
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Burntside is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burntside
- Burntside Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Burntside Lake is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burntside Lake
- Robinson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Robinson is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prairie Portage) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |