Nearest Communities to Wirt,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wirt, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wirt:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wirt is located in Itasca County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Itasca County: Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Koochiching & Saint Louis.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 41 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wirt. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Itasca 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 Wirt (which is Itasca 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 Wirt
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Itasca County (where Wirt resides)
- 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 Wirt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wirt.
- Dora Lake
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
- Pomroy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Pomroy is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomroy
- Oslund
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Oslund is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oslund
- Spring Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Max
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Squaw Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jessie Lake
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jessie Lake is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Lake
- Inger
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Inger is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inger
- Talmoon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Dunbar
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Dunbar is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunbar
- Bigfork
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Alvwood
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Alvwood is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvwood
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- Bergville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Bergville is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergville
- Bowstring
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bowstring is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
- Marcell
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Effie
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Alder
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Alder is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
- Rosy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Rosy is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosy
- Orth
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Orth is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orth
- Suomi
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Suomi is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suomi
- Houpt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Houpt is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houpt
- Ball Club
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Ball Club is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ball Club
- Deer River
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Zemple
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Zemple is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zemple
- Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
- Beltrami County
- County Website: https://www.co.beltrami.mn.us/
- County Seat for Beltrami: Bemidji
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wirt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wirt.
- 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
- Shooks
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Shooks is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shooks
- Kelliher
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Blackduck
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Pennington
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Langor
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Langor is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
- Inez
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Inez is located in Beltrami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez
- Cass County
- County Website: https://www.casscountymn.gov/
- County Seat for Cass: Walker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Wirt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wirt.
- Bena
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ryan Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ryan Village is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
- Koochiching County
- 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 Wirt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wirt.
- Wildwood
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Wildwood is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
- Pinetop
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Pinetop is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinetop
- Mizpah
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Mizpah is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah
- Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
- Northome
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Gemmell
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
- Craigville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Craigville is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigville
- Forest Grove
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Forest Grove is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Margie
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Margie is located in Koochiching County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margie
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- Wirt) 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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