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Nearest Communities to Deering,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Deering.<1>

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

Deering is located in McHenry County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McHenry County: Bottineau, McLean, Pierce, Renville, Sheridan & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Deering. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than McHenry 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 Deering (which is McHenry 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 Deering

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

  • McHenry County   (where Deering resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
    • County Seat for McHenry:   Towner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Deering   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Deering.
      • Rising ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Rising is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising
      • Norwich
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Norwich is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwich
      • Granville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Genoa
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Genoa is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
      • Riga
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Riga is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
      • Simcoe
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Simcoe is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simcoe
      • Upham
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Bantry
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Denbigh
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Denbigh is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
      • Milroy
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Milroy is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milroy
      • Velva
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Velva is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Velva
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,185 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Velva <3>
      • Verendrye
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Verendrye is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye
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        • Voltaire
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Cole Ford
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Cole Ford is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Ford
        • Karlsruhe
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Towner
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Bergen
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Bergen is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
  • Bottineau County
    • County Website:   https://www.bottineauco.com/
    • County Seat for Bottineau:   Bottineau
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northwest
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Deering   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Deering.
      • Forfar
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Forfar is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forfar
      • Eckman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Eckman is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckman
      • Hurd
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Hurd is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
      • Russell
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Russell is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
      • Lansford
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Dunning
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Dunning is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunning
      • Maxbass
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Newburg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Kramer
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Renville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Renville is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renville
      • Truro
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Truro is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
      • White ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • White is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
  • Renville County
  • Ward County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ward.nd.us/
    • County Seat for Ward:   Minot
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Deering   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Deering.
      • Wolseth
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Wolseth is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolseth
      • Surrey
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Ruthville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Ruthville is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthville
      • Minot
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Logan
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Logan is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
      • Burlington
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Sawyer
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Ralston
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ralston is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralston
      • Foxholm
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Foxholm is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxholm
      • Drady
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Drady is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drady
      • Des Lacs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • South Prairie
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • South Prairie is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Prairie
      • Lonetree
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Carpio
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Deering) 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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