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Nearest Communities to Bowdon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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.

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.

Bowdon is located in Wells County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wells County: Benson, Eddy, Foster, Kidder, Pierce, Sheridan & Stutsman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bowdon. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Wells 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 Bowdon (which is Wells 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 Bowdon

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

  • Wells County   (where Bowdon resides)
    • County Seat for Wells:   Fessenden
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowdon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowdon.
      • Chaseley
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Heaton
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heaton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
        • Heaton is located in Wells County
      • Hurdsfield
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurdsfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurdsfield
        • Hurdsfield is located in Wells County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hurdsfield <3>
      • Emrick
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Emrick have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emrick
        • Emrick is located in Wells County
      • Fessenden
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fessenden have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fessenden
        • Fessenden is located in Wells County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fessenden <3>
      • Sykeston
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Manfred
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manfred have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manfred
        • Manfred is located in Wells County
      • Cathay
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cathay have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathay
        • Cathay is located in Wells County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cathay <3>
      • Dover
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dover have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
        • Dover is located in Wells County
      • Heimdal
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heimdal have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heimdal
        • Heimdal is located in Wells County
      • Hamberg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamberg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamberg
        • Hamberg is located in Wells County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamberg <3>
      • Harvey
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harvey have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey
        • Harvey is located in Wells County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,587 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harvey <3>
      • Bremen
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Wellsburg
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wellsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsburg
        • Wellsburg is located in Wells County
  • Eddy County
    • County Seat for Eddy:   New Rockford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowdon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowdon.
      • Munster
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Munster have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munster
        • Munster is located in Eddy County
      • New Rockford
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Foster County
    • County Seat for Foster:   Carrington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowdon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowdon.
      • Lemert
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemert have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemert
        • Lemert is located in Foster County
      • Guptill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guptill
        • Guptill is located in Foster County
      • Barlow
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
        • Barlow is located in Foster County
      • Carrington
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Kidder County
    • County Seat for Kidder:   Steele
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowdon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowdon.
      • Robinson
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
        • Robinson is located in Kidder County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Robinson <3>
      • Lake Williams
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Williams
        • Lake Williams is located in Kidder County
      • Pettibone
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pettibone have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettibone
        • Pettibone is located in Kidder County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pettibone <3>
      • Tuttle
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pierce County
  • Sheridan County
    • County Seat for Sheridan:   McClusky
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowdon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowdon.
      • Goodrich
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodrich have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
        • Goodrich is located in Sheridan County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodrich <3>
      • Denhoff
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Lincoln Valley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincoln Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Valley
        • Lincoln Valley is located in Sheridan County
  • Stutsman County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bowdon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bowdon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.4689, Longitude: -99.7085       In this case, the coordinates for Bowdon 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.




 

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