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Nearest Communities to Knife River Village,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from Knife River Village.<1>

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

Knife River Village is located in Mercer County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mercer County: Dunn, McLean, Morton, Oliver & Stark.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Knife River Village. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Mercer 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 Knife River Village (which is Mercer 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 Knife River Village

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

  • Mercer County   (where Knife River Village resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mercercountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Mercer:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Knife River Village   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Knife River Village.
      • Stanton
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Krem ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Krem is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krem
      • Hazen
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Pick City
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Pick City is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pick City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
      • Truax
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Truax is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truax
      • Beulah
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Zap
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Zap is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zap
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zap <3>
      • Beaver Creek ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Beaver Creek is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
  • Burleigh County
  • McLean County
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Knife River Village   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Knife River Village.
      • Riverdale
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Falkirk
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Falkirk is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falkirk
      • Underwood
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Riverdale Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Riverdale Junction is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Junction
      • Washburn
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Coleharbor
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Merida
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Merida is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merida
      • Garrison
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Emmet
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Emmet is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmet
      • Turtle Lake
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Wilton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Nishu ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Nishu is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nishu
  • Morton County
  • Oliver County
    • County Website:   https://olivercountynd.org/
    • County Seat for Oliver:   Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Knife River Village   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Knife River Village.
      • Fort Clark
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Clark is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark
      • Hensler
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Hensler is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensler
      • Center
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Hannover
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Hannover is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannover
      • Sanger
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Sanger is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
      • Otter Creek
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Otter Creek is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otter Creek
      • Price
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Price is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Knife River Village) 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.