Nearest Communities to Wildwood,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wildwood, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wildwood:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Wildwood.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wildwood 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 41 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wildwood. Of these communities, 28 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 Wildwood (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 Wildwood
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Koochiching County (where Wildwood resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.koochiching.mn.us/
- County Seat for Koochiching: International Falls
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wildwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wildwood.
- Pinetop
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Pinetop is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinetop
- Gemmell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
- Mizpah
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Mizpah is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah
- Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
- Forest Grove
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Forest Grove is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Northome
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Margie
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Margie is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margie
- Craigville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Craigville is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigville
- Big Falls
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Grand Falls
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Grand Falls is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Falls
- Sturgeon River Landing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Gates Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Gates Corner is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates Corner
- Ben Linn Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Ben Linn Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Linn Landing
- Hendrickson Landing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Hendrickson Landing is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hendrickson Landing
- Beltrami County
- County Website: https://www.co.beltrami.mn.us/
- County Seat for Beltrami: Bemidji
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wildwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wildwood.
- Shooks
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Shooks is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shooks
- Funkley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Funkley is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funkley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
- Kelliher
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Inez
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Inez is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez
- Blackduck
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Langor
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Langor is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
- Itasca County
- County Website: https://www.co.itasca.mn.us/
- County Seat for Itasca: Grand Rapids
- Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wildwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wildwood.
- Pomroy
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Pomroy is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomroy
- Dora Lake
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
- Wirt
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Wirt is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wirt
- Effie
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Bergville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bergville is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergville
- Oslund
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Oslund is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oslund
- Orth
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Orth is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orth
- Spring Lake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Bigfork
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Alvwood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Alvwood is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvwood
- Max
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Squaw Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
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- Dunbar
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Dunbar is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar
- Houpt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Houpt is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houpt
- Jessie Lake
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Jessie Lake is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Lake
- Talmoon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rosy
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Rosy is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosy
- Inger
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Inger is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inger
- Marcell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bowstring
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Bowstring is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
- Alder
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Alder is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
- Suomi
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Suomi is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suomi
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wildwood) 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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