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Nearest Communities to Croff,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Croff is located in McKenzie County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKenzie County: Richland (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Mountrail & Williams.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Croff. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than McKenzie 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 Croff (which is McKenzie 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 Croff

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

  • McKenzie County   (where Croff resides)
    • County Website:   https://mckenziecountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McKenzie:   Watford City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Croff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Croff.
      • Johnsons Corner
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Johnsons Corner is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
      • Spotted Horn
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Spotted Horn is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spotted Horn
      • Schafer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Schafer is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schafer
      • Mandaree
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Keene
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Watford City
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Hawkeye
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Hawkeye is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkeye
      • Charlson
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Charlson is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlson
      • Four Bears Village
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Four Bears Village is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Bears Village
      • Banks ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Banks is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks
      • Arnegard
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Grassy Butte
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Rawson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Rawson is located in McKenzie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawson
  • Dunn County
    • County Website:   https://dunncountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Dunn:   Manning
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Croff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Croff.
      • Oakdale
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Oakdale is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale
      • Medicine Hole
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Medicine Hole is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Hole
      • Killdeer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Independance ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Independance is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independance
      • Dunn Center
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • McLean County
  • Mountrail County
  • Williams 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- Croff) 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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