Nearest Communities to Wayland,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wayland, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wayland:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Wayland.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wayland 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wayland. Of these communities, 12 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 Wayland (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 Wayland
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Wayland resides)
- County Website: www.co.koochiching.mn.us/
- County Seat for Koochiching: International Falls
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- Nearest Communities to Wayland ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wayland.
- Fairland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Frontier
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Birchdale
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Birchdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchdale
- Birchdale is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Birchdale <4>
- Border
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border
- Border is located in Koochiching County
- Central
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Manitou
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - Gates Corner
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gates Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates Corner
- Gates Corner is located in Koochiching County
- Loman
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Lindford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Indus
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Ben Linn Landing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ben Linn Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Linn Landing
- Ben Linn Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Hendrickson Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hendrickson Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendrickson Landing
- Hendrickson Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Sturgeon River Landing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sturgeon River Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgeon River Landing
- Sturgeon River Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Laurel
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Big Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Falls
- Big Falls is located in Koochiching County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Falls <4>
- Grand Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Falls
- Grand Falls is located in Koochiching County
- Sturgeon River Landing
- Beltrami County
- County Website: www.co.beltrami.mn.us/
- County Seat for Beltrami: Bemidji
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Beltrami County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Beltrami County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Beltrami County
- Nearest Communities to Wayland ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wayland.
- Waskish
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waskish
- Waskish is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Waskish <4>
- Domaas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Otto
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lake of the Woods County
- County Website: www.co.lake-of-the-woods.mn.us/
- County Seat for Lake of the Woods: Baudette
- Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the northwest, the Lake of the Woods lies to the north and the Canadian Province of Ontario to the northeast
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake of the Woods County
- From Family Search:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake of the Woods County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Minnesota
- Lake of the Woods County
- Nearest Communities to Wayland ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wayland.
- Carp
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west) - Clementson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementson
- Clementson is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Baudette
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baudette
- Baudette is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,018 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baudette <4>
- Pitt
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitt
- Pitt is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Oaks Corner
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oaks Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaks Corner
- Oaks Corner is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Graceton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Hackett
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Wheelers Point
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheelers Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelers Point
- Wheelers Point is located in Lake of the Woods County
- Faunce
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wayland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wayland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4683, Longitude: -94.3205 In this case, the coordinates for Wayland 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. |