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Nearest Communities to Hansboro,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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


Hansboro is located in Towner County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Towner County: Benson, Cavalier, Pierce, Ramsey & Rolette.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hansboro. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Towner 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 Hansboro (which is Towner 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 Hansboro

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

  • Towner County   (where Hansboro resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.tccounty.com/
    • County Seat for Towner:   Cando
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hansboro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hansboro.
      • Amourdale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Amourdale is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amourdale
      • Armourdale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Armourdale is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armourdale
      • Rocklake
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Perth
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Crocus
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Crocus is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocus
      • Bisbee
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Arndt
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Arndt is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arndt
      • Egeland
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Olmstead
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Olmstead is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olmstead
      • Considine
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Considine is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Considine
  • Cavalier County
    • County Website:   https://cavaliercounty.us/
    • County Seat for Cavalier:   Langdon
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hansboro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hansboro.
      • Sarles
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Calvin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Clyde
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Clyde is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Calio
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Calio is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calio
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
  • Rolette County
    • County Website:   https://rolettecountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Rolette:   Rolla
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hansboro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hansboro.
      • Rolla
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Rolla is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolla
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,273 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rolla <3>
      • Saint John
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Belcourt
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Agate
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Mylo
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Shell Valley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Shell Valley is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Valley
      • Rolette
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Thorne
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Thorne is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorne
      • East Dunseith
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • East Dunseith is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dunseith
      • Kelvin
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Kelvin is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelvin
      • San Haven
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • San Haven is located in Rolette County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Haven

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- Hansboro) 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.