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Nearest Communities to Silverdale,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Silverdale 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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Silverdale. Of these communities, 26 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 Silverdale (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 Silverdale

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

  • Koochiching County   (where Silverdale resides)
  • Itasca County
  • 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 Silverdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silverdale.
      • Greaney
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Greaney is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaney
      • Nett Lake
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Nett Lake is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nett Lake
      • Celina
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Celina is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Celina
      • Meadow Brook
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Meadow Brook is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook
      • Gheen Corner
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Gheen Corner is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gheen Corner
      • Gheen
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Gheen is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gheen
      • Glendale
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Glendale is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Linden Grove
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Linden Grove is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden Grove
      • Orr
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Orr is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orr
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 332 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Orr <3>
      • Cusson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Cusson is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusson
      • Bear River
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Bear River is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
      • Haley
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Haley is located in Saint Louis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haley
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Ash Lake
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
          • Ash Lake is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Lake
        • Sturgeon
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
          • Sturgeon is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgeon
        • Wakemup
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Wakemup is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakemup
        • Cook
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Cook is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 562 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cook <3>
        • Arbutus
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Arbutus is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbutus
        • Side Lake
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Leander
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Leander is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leander
        • Shermans Corner
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Shermans Corner is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shermans Corner
        • Angora
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Idington
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Idington is located in Saint Louis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idington
        • Buyck
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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- Silverdale) 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.