Nearest Communities to Burns,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Burns, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Burns:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Burns.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Burns is located in Richland County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Richland County: Dawson, McCone, Roosevelt, Wibaux & McKenzie (ND).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Burns. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Richland 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 Burns (which is Richland 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 Burns
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Richland County (where Burns resides)
- County Website: https://www.richland.org/
- County Seat for Richland: Sidney
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Burns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Burns.
- Knife River
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Knife River is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River
- Savage
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Midway
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Midway is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Hoffmanville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hoffmanville is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffmanville
- Sears ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sears is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
- Crane
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Piche
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Piche is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piche
- Newlon Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Newlon Junction is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlon Junction
- Riverview
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Riverview is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
- Fox Lake
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Fox Lake is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
- Lambert
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Sidney
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Fischer Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Fischer Park is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fischer Park
- Brorson ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Brorson is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brorson
- Enid
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Enid is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
- Wooley
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wooley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooley
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://dawsoncountymontana.org/
- County Seat for Dawson: Glendive
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Burns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Burns.
- Lufboro ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Lufboro is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lufboro
- Intake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Intake is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Intake
- Stipek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Stipek is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stipek
- Red Top
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Red Top is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Top
- Curry
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Curry is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curry
- Glendive
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Hungry Joe
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Hungry Joe is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hungry Joe
- Allard
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Allard is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allard
- West Glendive
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- West Glendive is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Glendive
- Bloomfield
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Forest Park
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Forest Park is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
- Landtsheim ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Landtsheim is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landtsheim
- Hodges
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Hodges is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
- Colgate
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Colgate is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colgate
- Wibaux County
- County Seat for Wibaux: Wibaux
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Burns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Burns.
- Been ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Been is located in Wibaux County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Been
- Wibaux
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Golden Valley County
- County Website: https://www.goldenvalleycounty.org/
- County Seat for Golden Valley: Beach (ND)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Burns ...
- Trotters
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Trotters is located in Golden Valley County (ND)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trotters
- McKenzie County
- County Website: https://mckenziecountynd.gov/
- County Seat for McKenzie: Watford City (ND)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Burns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Burns.
- Skaar
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Skaar is located in McKenzie County (ND)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skaar
- Squaw Gap
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Squaw Gap is located in McKenzie County (ND)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Gap
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Burns) 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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