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Nearest Communities to Volmer,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.<1>

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

Volmer is located in Sheridan County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sheridan County: Daniels, Roosevelt, Divide (ND) & Williams (ND).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Volmer. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Sheridan 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 Volmer (which is Sheridan 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 Volmer

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

  • Sheridan County   (where Volmer resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sheridancountymt.gov/
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   Plentywood
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Volmer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Volmer.
      • Dagmar
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Rock Crossing
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Rock Crossing is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Crossing
      • Coalridge
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Coalridge is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalridge
      • Reserve
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Medicine Lake
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Antelope
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Homestead
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Homestead is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
      • McElroy
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • McElroy is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McElroy
      • Westby
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Plentywood
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Comertown
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Comertown is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comertown
      • Dooley
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Dooley is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dooley
      • Midby ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Midby is located in Sheridan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midby
      • Raymond
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Roosevelt County
  • Divide County
  • Williams County
    • County Website:   https://www.williamsnd.com/
    • County Seat for Williams:   Williston (ND)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Volmer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Volmer.
      • Grenora
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Grenora is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grenora
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 347 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grenora <3>
      • West Bonetraill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • West Bonetraill is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bonetraill
      • Gladys
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Gladys is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladys
      • Hanks
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Hanks is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanks
      • Bonetraill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Bonetraill is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonetraill
      • Zahl
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Marmon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Marmon is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marmon
      • Appam
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Appam is located in Williams County (ND)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appam

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Volmer) 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.