Nearest Communities to Keene,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Keene, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Keene:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Keene.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Keene is located in McKenzie County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKenzie County: Richland (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Mountrail & Williams.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Keene. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than McKenzie 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 Keene (which is McKenzie 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 Keene
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- McKenzie County (where Keene resides)
- County Seat for McKenzie: Watford City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- Nearest Communities to Keene ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Keene.
- Hawkeye
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast) - Johnsons Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johnsons Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
- Johnsons Corner is located in McKenzie County
- Charlson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Croff
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Banks ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest) - Schafer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Four Bears Village
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Bears Village
- Four Bears Village is located in McKenzie County
- Watford City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watford City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watford City
- Watford City is located in McKenzie County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,944 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Watford City <4>
- Mandaree
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mandaree have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandaree
- Mandaree is located in McKenzie County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mandaree <4>
- Spotted Horn
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spotted Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spotted Horn
- Spotted Horn is located in McKenzie County
- Arnegard
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arnegard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnegard
- Arnegard is located in McKenzie County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 179 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arnegard <4>
- Rawson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- McLean County
- County Website: www.visitmcleancounty.com/
- County Seat for McLean: Washburn
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- McLean County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- McLean County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- McLean County
- Nearest Communities to Keene ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Keene.
- Charging Eagle ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Charging Eagle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charging Eagle
- Charging Eagle is located in McLean County
- Shell Creek ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shell Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Creek
- Shell Creek is located in McLean County
- Mountrail County
- County Seat for Mountrail: Stanley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Mountrail County
- Nearest Communities to Keene ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Keene.
- Sanish
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanish
- Sanish is located in Mountrail County
- New Town
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
- New Town is located in Mountrail County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,625 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Town <4>
- Van Hook
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Williams County
- County Seat for Williams: Williston
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- Nearest Communities to Keene ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Keene.
- Lunds Landing
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lunds Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunds Landing
- Lunds Landing is located in Williams County
- Lake Jessie
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Jessie
- Lake Jessie is located in Williams County
- Wheelock
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest) - Ray
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ray
- Ray is located in Williams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 943 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ray <4>
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- Keene) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Keene. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.9283, Longitude: -102.9400 |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |