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Nearest Communities to Baker,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>

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

Baker is located in Benson County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Benson County: Eddy, Nelson, Pierce, Ramsey, Towner & Wells.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Baker. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Benson 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 Baker (which is Benson 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 Baker

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

  • Benson County   (where Baker resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bensoncountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Benson:   Minnewaukan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baker.
      • Harlow
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Harlow is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlow
      • Isabel
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Fillmore
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Fillmore is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
      • Esmond
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Comstock
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Comstock is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
      • York
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Knox
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Hesper
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Hesper is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesper
      • Leeds
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Brinsmade
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Maddock
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Niles
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Niles is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Pleasant Lake
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Pleasant Lake is located in Benson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Lake
        • Flora
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Flora is located in Benson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flora
        • Tilden
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Tilden is located in Benson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilden
        • Minnewaukan
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Josephine
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Josephine is located in Benson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josephine
        • Lallie
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Lallie is located in Benson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lallie
        • Oberon
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • McHenry County
  • Pierce County
    • County Website:   https://www.piercecountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Rugby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baker.
      • Silva
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Silva is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silva
      • Balta
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Rugby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Wolford
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Selz
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Selz is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selz
      • Orrin
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Tunbridge
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Tunbridge is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
      • Clifton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Clifton is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
      • Leverich
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Leverich is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leverich
      • Aylmer
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Aylmer is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aylmer
  • Ramsey County
  • Rolette County
  • Towner County
  • Wells County

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- Baker) 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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