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Nearest Communities to Garrison,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Garrison 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garrison. Of these communities, 13 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 Garrison (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 Garrison

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

  • McLean County   (where Garrison resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garrison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garrison.
      • Emmet
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Emmet is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmet
      • Riverdale
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Coleharbor
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Max
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Max is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Max
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Max <3>
      • Riverdale Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Riverdale Junction is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Junction
      • Benedict
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Underwood
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • White Shield
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • White Shield is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Shield
      • Roseglen
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Nishu ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Nishu is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nishu
      • Falkirk
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Falkirk is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falkirk
      • Turtle Lake
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Ruso
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Raub
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Raub is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raub
  • Mercer County
    • County Website:   https://www.mercercountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Mercer:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garrison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garrison.
      • Pick City
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Pick City is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pick City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
      • Krem ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Krem is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krem
      • Knife River Village
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Knife River Village is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River Village
      • Truax
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Truax is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truax
      • Stanton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Hazen
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Beaver Creek ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Beaver Creek is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
  • Oliver County
  • Ward County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Garrison) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.