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Nearest Communities to Fessenden,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Fessenden is located in Wells County and is the County Seat.

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 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fessenden. Of these communities, 21 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 Fessenden (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 Fessenden

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

  • Wells County   (where Fessenden resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.wellscountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Wells:   Fessenden
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fessenden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fessenden.
      • Manfred
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Manfred is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manfred
      • Emrick
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Emrick is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emrick
      • Heimdal
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Heimdal is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heimdal
      • Hamberg
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Cathay
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bremen
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Heaton
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Heaton is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
      • Bowdon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Wellsburg
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Wellsburg is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsburg
      • Harvey
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Sykeston
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Chaseley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Hurdsfield
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Dover
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Dover is located in Wells County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
  • Benson County
    • County Website:   https://www.bensoncountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Benson:   Minnewaukan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fessenden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fessenden.
      • Maddock
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Flora
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Flora is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flora
      • Hesper
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Hesper is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesper
      • Josephine
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Josephine is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josephine
      • Esmond
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Oberon
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Isabel
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Lallie
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Lallie is located in Benson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lallie
  • Eddy County
    • County Website:   https://www.eddycountynd.org/
    • County Seat for Eddy:   New Rockford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fessenden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fessenden.
      • Munster
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Munster is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munster
      • New Rockford
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Divide
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Divide is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
      • Sheyenne
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Dundas
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Dundas is located in Eddy County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundas
  • Foster County
  • Pierce County
  • Sheridan County

Footnotes ...

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