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Nearest Communities to Cathay,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Cathay.<1>

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

Cathay 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 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cathay. Of these communities, 25 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 Cathay (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 Cathay

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

  • Wells County   (where Cathay resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.wellscountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Wells:   Fessenden
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cathay   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cathay.
      • Emrick
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Emrick is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emrick
      • Sykeston
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Heaton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Heaton is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
      • Dover
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Dover is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
      • Fessenden
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bremen
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Hamberg
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Bowdon
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Manfred
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Manfred is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manfred
      • Heimdal
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Heimdal is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heimdal
      • Chaseley
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Wellsburg
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Wellsburg is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsburg
      • Hurdsfield
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Harvey
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Benson County
  • Eddy County
    • County Website:   https://www.eddycountynd.org/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   New Rockford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cathay   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cathay.
      • Munster
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Munster is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munster
      • New Rockford
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Dundas
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Dundas is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundas
      • Divide
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Divide is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
      • Brantford
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Brantford is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantford
      • Sheyenne
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Foster County
    • County Website:   https://fostercounty.com/
    • County Seat for Foster:   Carrington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cathay   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cathay.
      • Lemert
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Lemert is located in Foster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemert
      • Barlow
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Barlow is located in Foster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
      • Guptill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Guptill is located in Foster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guptill
      • Carrington
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Bordulac
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Bordulac is located in Foster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bordulac
      • Melville
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Melville is located in Foster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
      • Grace City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Kidder County
  • Pierce County
  • Stutsman County

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- Cathay) 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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