Nearest Communities to Bowbells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bowbells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bowbells:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
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.
Bowbells is located in Burke County and is the County Seat.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Burke County: Mountrail, Renville, Ward & Williams.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bowbells. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Burke 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 Bowbells (which is Burke 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 Bowbells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Burke County (where Bowbells resides)
- County Seat for Burke: Bowbells
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Burke County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Burke County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Burke County
- Nearest Communities to Bowbells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
- Coteau
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest) - Perella
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north) - Woburn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - Flaxton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flaxton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flaxton
- Flaxton is located in Burke County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Flaxton <4>
- Northgate
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north) - Vanville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest) - Sevenmile Corner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
- Sevenmile Corner is located in Burke County
- Lignite
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lignite have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lignite
- Lignite is located in Burke County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 221 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lignite <4>
- Rival ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Portal
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portal
- Portal is located in Burke County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Portal <4>
- Stampede
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Powers Lake
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powers Lake
- Powers Lake is located in Burke County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Powers Lake <4>
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Columbus
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Columbus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
- Columbus is located in Burke County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 139 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Columbus <4>
- Kincaid
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Larson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Battleview
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battleview
- Battleview is located in Burke County
- Atcoal
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Columbus
- Mountrail County
- County Seat for Mountrail: Stanley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- Nearest Communities to Bowbells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
- Coulee
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coulee
- Coulee is located in Mountrail County
- Lostwood
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Lunds Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- 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
- Wassaic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Renville County
- County Website: www.renvillecounty.org/
- County Seat for Renville: Mohall
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Renville County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Renville County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Renville County
- Nearest Communities to Bowbells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
- Norma
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norma
- Norma is located in Renville County
- Tolley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolley
- Tolley is located in Renville County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tolley <4>
- Greene
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Sherwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sherwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Sherwood is located in Renville County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 223 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sherwood <4>
- Ward County
- County Website: www.co.ward.nd.us/
- County Seat for Ward: Minot
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Ward County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Ward County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Ward County
- Nearest Communities to Bowbells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
- Nine Mile Corner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nine Mile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nine Mile Corner
- Nine Mile Corner is located in Ward County
- Niobe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niobe
- Niobe is located in Ward County
- Kenmare
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kenmare have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenmare
- Kenmare is located in Ward County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,026 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kenmare <4>
- Kenaston
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast) - Baden
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast) - Donnybrook
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnybrook
- Donnybrook is located in Ward County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 53 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Donnybrook <4>
- Aurelia
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bowbells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bowbells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8031, Longitude: -102.2471 In this case, the coordinates for Bowbells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |