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 northeast 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 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 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: www.lakecnty.com/
- County Seat for Lake: Two Harbors
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake County
- 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)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Rapids have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Rapids
- Silver Rapids is located in Lake County
- Forest Center
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Center
- Forest Center is located in Lake County
- Section Thirty
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Section Thirty have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Section Thirty
- Section Thirty is located in Lake County
- White Iron
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Iron have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Iron
- White Iron is located in Lake County
- Martin Landing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Martin Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Landing
- Martin Landing is located in Lake County
- Wheeler Landing
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheeler Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Landing
- Wheeler Landing is located in Lake County
- Sawbill Landing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawbill Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawbill Landing
- Sawbill Landing is located in Lake County
- Kelly Landing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kelly Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Landing
- Kelly Landing is located in Lake County
- Happy Wanderer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Happy Wanderer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Wanderer
- Happy Wanderer is located in Lake County
- Isabella
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella
- Isabella is located in Lake County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Isabella <4>
- Saint Louis County
- County Website: www.co.st-louis.mn.us/
- County Seat for Saint Louis: Duluth
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Nearest Communities to Prairie Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Portage.
- Winton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Ely
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ely have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Ely is located in Saint Louis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,325 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <4>
- Burntside
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Burntside Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burntside Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burntside Lake
- Burntside Lake is located in Saint Louis County
- Robinson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
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 from Point A (ie- Prairie Portage) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prairie Portage. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.0507, Longitude: -91.4387 In this case, the coordinates for Prairie Portage have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |