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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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 starting from Bowbells.<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 Website:   https://www.burkecountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Burke:   Bowbells
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowbells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
      • Coteau
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Coteau is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coteau
      • Perella
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Perella is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perella
      • Woburn
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Woburn is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woburn
      • Flaxton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Northgate
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Northgate is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northgate
      • Vanville
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Vanville is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanville
      • Sevenmile Corner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Sevenmile Corner is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
      • Lignite
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Rival ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Rival is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rival
      • Portal
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Stampede
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Stampede is located in Burke County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stampede
      • Powers Lake
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Columbus
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Kincaid
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Kincaid is located in Burke County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kincaid
        • Larson
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Larson is located in Burke County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larson
        • Battleview
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Battleview is located in Burke County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battleview
        • Atcoal
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Atcoal is located in Burke County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atcoal
  • Mountrail County
  • Renville County
  • Ward County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ward.nd.us/
    • County Seat for Ward:   Minot
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowbells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowbells.
      • Nine Mile Corner
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Nine Mile Corner is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nine Mile Corner
      • Niobe
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Niobe is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niobe
      • Kenmare
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Kenaston
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Kenaston is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenaston
      • Baden
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Baden is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baden
      • Donnybrook
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Aurelia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Aurelia is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurelia

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 from Point A (ie- Bowbells) 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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