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Nearest Communities to Willmar,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Willmar.<1>

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

Willmar is located in Kandiyohi County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kandiyohi County: Chippewa, Meeker, Pope, Renville, Stearns & Swift.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 61 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willmar. Of these communities, 43 are located in counties other than Kandiyohi 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 Willmar (which is Kandiyohi 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 Willmar

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

  • Kandiyohi County   (where Willmar resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kcmn.us/
    • County Seat for Kandiyohi:   Willmar
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willmar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willmar.
      • Wilmar
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Parkwood Estates
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Parkwood Estates is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkwood Estates
      • Kandiyohi
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Kandiyohi is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kandiyohi
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 477 people
      • Priam
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Priam is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Priam
      • Pennock
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Pennock is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennock
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 509 people
      • Svea
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Spicer
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Spicer is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicer
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,224 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spicer <3>
      • Blomkest
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Blomkest is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blomkest
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 157 people
      • Raymond
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Atwater
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Norway Lake
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Norway Lake is located in Kandiyohi County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norway Lake
      • Roseland
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
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        • Lake Lillian
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Prinsburg
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • New London
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Sunburg
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • Sunburg is located in Kandiyohi County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunburg
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
        • Hawick
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Regal
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Regal is located in Kandiyohi County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regal
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Chippewa County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.chippewa.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Chippewa:   Montevideo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willmar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willmar.
      • Bunde
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Bunde is located in Chippewa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunde
      • Clara City
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Louriston
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Louriston is located in Chippewa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louriston
      • Gluek
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Gluek is located in Chippewa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gluek
      • Maynard
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Gracelock
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Gracelock is located in Chippewa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gracelock
      • Asbury
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Asbury is located in Chippewa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asbury
  • Meeker County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.meeker.mn.us/
    • County Seat for Meeker:   Litchfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willmar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willmar.
      • Grove City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Rosendale
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Acton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Acton is located in Meeker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton
      • Crow River
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Crow River is located in Meeker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow River
      • Cosmos
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Strout
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Strout is located in Meeker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strout
      • Manannah
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Beckville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Beckville is located in Meeker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckville
      • Corvuso
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Corvuso is located in Meeker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corvuso
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  • Pope County
  • Renville County
  • Stearns County
    • County Website:   https://www.stearnscountymn.gov/
    • County Seat for Stearns:   Saint Cloud
    • Note: The Mississippi River runs along the eastern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willmar   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willmar.
      • Georgeville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Georgeville is located in Stearns County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgeville
      • Belgrade
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Belgrade is located in Stearns County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belgrade
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 787 people
      • Paynesville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Brooten
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Brooten is located in Stearns County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooten
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 750 people
      • Lake Henry
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lake Henry is located in Stearns County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Henry
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
      • Roscoe
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Spring Hill
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Spring Hill is located in Stearns County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 95 people
  • Swift County

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- Willmar) 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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