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Nearest Communities to Carson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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.

Carson is located in Grant County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grant County: Adams, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux & Stark.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Carson. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Grant 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 Carson (which is Grant 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 Carson

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

  • Grant County   (where Carson resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.grantcountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Carson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carson.
      • Leith
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Leith is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leith
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
      • Brisbane
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Brisbane is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisbane
      • Heil
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Heil is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heil
      • Lark
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Lark is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark
      • Raleigh
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Elgin
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Johnson Ford ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Johnson Ford is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Ford
      • Saint Gertrude
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Saint Gertrude is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Gertrude
      • New Leipzig
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Freda
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Freda is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freda
      • Shields
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Hettinger County
  • Morton County
    • County Website:   https://www.mortonnd.gov/
    • County Seat for Morton:   Mandan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carson.
      • Flasher
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Almont
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Fallon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Fallon is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallon
      • Sims
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Sims is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
      • Timmer
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Timmer is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timmer
      • North Almont
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • North Almont is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Almont
      • Dengate
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Dengate is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dengate
      • New Salem
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Glen Ullin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Breien
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Breien is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breien
  • Sioux County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Carson) 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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