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Nearest Communities to Williams,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Williams.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Williams is located in Lake of the Woods County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake of the Woods County: Beltrami, Koochiching & Roseau.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Williams. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Lake of the Woods 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 Williams (which is Lake of the Woods 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 Williams

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

  • Lake of the Woods County   (where Williams resides)
    • County Website:   https://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   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Williams   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Williams.
      • Graceton
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Graceton is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graceton
      • Pitt
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Pitt is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitt
      • Hackett
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Hackett is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackett
      • Birch Beach
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Birch Beach is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch Beach
      • Wheelers Point
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Wheelers Point is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelers Point
      • Faunce
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Faunce is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faunce
      • Arnesen
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Arnesen is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnesen
      • Long Point
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Long Point is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Point
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
      • Baudette
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Baudette is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baudette
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,018 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baudette <3>
      • Carp
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Carp is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carp
      • Oaks Corner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Oaks Corner is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaks Corner
      • Clementson
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Clementson is located in Lake of the Woods County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementson
  • Beltrami County
  • Koochiching County
  • Roseau County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.roseau.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Roseau:   Roseau
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Williams   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Williams.
      • Roosevelt Park
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Roosevelt Park is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt Park
      • Roosevelt
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Swift
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Swift is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift
      • North Star Court
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • North Star Court is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Star Court
      • Warroad
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Longworth
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Longworth is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longworth
      • Winner
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Winner is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winner
      • Enstrom Estates
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Enstrom Estates is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enstrom Estates
      • Salol
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Salol is located in Roseau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salol

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Williams) 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.