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Nearest Communities to Flasher,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Flasher.<1>

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

Flasher is located in Morton County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Morton County: Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Mercer, Oliver, Sioux & Stark.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Flasher. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Morton 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 Flasher (which is Morton 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 Flasher

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

  • Morton County   (where Flasher resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mortonnd.gov/
    • County Seat for Morton:   Mandan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Flasher   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Flasher.
      • Fallon
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Fallon is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallon
      • Timmer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Timmer is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timmer
      • Breien
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Breien is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breien
      • Saint Anthony
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Lynwood
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Lynwood is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynwood
      • Almont
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Judson
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Judson is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judson
      • Sims
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Sims is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
      • Lyons
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Sweet Briar
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Sweet Briar is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar
      • Schmidt
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Schmidt is located in Morton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schmidt
      • New Salem
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • On-a-Slant Village ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • On-a-Slant Village is located in Morton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for On-a-Slant Village
        • Huff
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Huff is located in Morton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huff
        • Sunny
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Sunny is located in Morton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny
        • North Almont
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • North Almont is located in Morton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Almont
        • Mandan
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Meadow Park
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Meadow Park is located in Morton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Park
  • Burleigh County
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://www.grantcountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Carson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Flasher   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Flasher.
      • Freda
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Freda is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freda
      • Raleigh
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Lark
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Lark is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark
      • Saint Gertrude
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Saint Gertrude is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Gertrude
      • Brisbane
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Brisbane is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisbane
      • Shields
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Carson
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Leith
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Leith is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leith
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
      • Heil
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Heil is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heil
      • Johnson Ford ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Johnson Ford is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Ford
      • Elgin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Sioux 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Flasher) 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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