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Nearest Communities to Balta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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.<1>

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

Balta is located in Pierce County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pierce County: Benson, Bottineau, McHenry, Rolette, Sheridan, Towner & Wells.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Balta. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Pierce 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 Balta (which is Pierce 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 Balta

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

  • Pierce County   (where Balta resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.piercecountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Rugby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Silva
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Silva is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silva
      • Orrin
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Rugby
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Tunbridge
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Tunbridge is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
      • Aylmer
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Aylmer is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aylmer
      • Leverich
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Leverich is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leverich
      • Clifton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Clifton is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
      • Selz
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Selz is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selz
      • Barton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Barton is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
      • Wolford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Benson County
    • County Website:   https://www.bensoncountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Benson:   Minnewaukan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Fillmore
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Fillmore is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
      • Esmond
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Baker
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Baker is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
      • Pleasant Lake
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Pleasant Lake is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Lake
      • Isabel
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Knox
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hesper
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Hesper is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesper
      • Harlow
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Harlow is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlow
      • York
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Maddock
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Leeds
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Comstock
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Comstock is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
  • McHenry County
    • County Website:   https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
    • County Seat for McHenry:   Towner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Balta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Balta.
      • Funston
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Funston is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
      • Berwick
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Berwick is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick
      • Guthrie
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Guthrie is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guthrie
      • Towner
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Anamoose
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Drake
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Rangeley
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Rangeley is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangeley
      • Balfour
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Denbigh
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Denbigh is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
      • Karlsruhe
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Milroy
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Milroy is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milroy
      • Kief
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Rolette County
  • Sheridan 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 from Point A (ie- Balta) 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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