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Nearest Communities to Belden,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Belden.<1>

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

Belden is located in Mountrail County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mountrail County: Burke, Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Ward & Williams.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Belden. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Mountrail 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 Belden (which is Mountrail 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 Belden

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

  • Mountrail County   (where Belden resides)
    • County Seat for Mountrail:   Stanley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Belden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Belden.
      • Epworth
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Epworth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epworth
        • Epworth is located in Mountrail County
      • Stanley
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • New Town
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Palermo
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Ross
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Van Hook
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Van Hook. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Hook
        • Van Hook is located in Mountrail County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Van Hook
        • From Belden to Van Hook
      • Sanish
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Wassaic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wassaic have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wassaic
        • Wassaic is located in Mountrail County
      • Blaisdell
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Manitou
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manitou have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manitou
        • Manitou is located in Mountrail County
      • Parshall
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Plaza
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plaza have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plaza
        • Plaza is located in Mountrail County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plaza <4>
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Lostwood
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lostwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lostwood
          • Lostwood is located in Mountrail County
        • Wabek
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wabek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabek
          • Wabek is located in Mountrail County
        • Tagus
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tagus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagus
          • Tagus is located in Mountrail County
        • Prairie Junction
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Junction
          • Prairie Junction is located in Mountrail County
        • White Earth
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Lunds Valley
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lunds Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunds Valley
          • Lunds Valley is located in Mountrail County
  • Dunn County
  • McKenzie County
    • County Seat for McKenzie:   Watford City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Belden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Belden.
      • Four Bears Village
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Charlson
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Charlson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlson
        • Charlson is located in McKenzie County
      • Hawkeye
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hawkeye have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkeye
        • Hawkeye is located in McKenzie County
  • McLean County
  • Ward County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Belden) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Belden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1535, Longitude: -102.3535    
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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