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Nearest Communities to Falkirk,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Falkirk.<1>

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

Falkirk is located in McLean County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McLean County: Burleigh, Dunn, McHenry, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Sheridan & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Falkirk. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than McLean 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 Falkirk (which is McLean 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 Falkirk

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

  • McLean County   (where Falkirk resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Falkirk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Falkirk.
      • Washburn
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Underwood
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Riverdale Junction
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Riverdale Junction is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Junction
      • Merida
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Merida is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merida
      • Coleharbor
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Turtle Lake
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Riverdale
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Mercer
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Wilton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Garrison
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Burleigh County
    • County Website:   https://www.burleigh.gov/
    • County Seat for Burleigh:   Bismarck
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Falkirk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Falkirk.
      • Wogansport
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Wogansport is located in Burleigh County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wogansport
      • Still
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Still is located in Burleigh County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Still
      • Baldwin
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Midway
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Burleigh County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Double Ditch Indian Village
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Regan
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Mercer County
    • County Website:   https://www.mercercountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Mercer:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Falkirk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Falkirk.
      • Knife River Village
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Knife River Village is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River Village
      • Stanton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Pick City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Pick City is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pick City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
      • Krem ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Krem is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krem
      • Hazen
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Truax
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Truax is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truax
  • Morton County
  • Oliver County
    • County Website:   https://olivercountynd.org/
    • County Seat for Oliver:   Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Falkirk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Falkirk.
      • Hensler
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Hensler is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensler
      • Fort Clark
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Fort Clark is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark
      • Sanger
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Sanger is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
      • Center
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Price
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Price is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price
      • Hannover
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Hannover is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannover
      • Otter Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Otter Creek is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otter Creek
  • Sheridan County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Falkirk) 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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