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Nearest Communities to McHenry,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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.

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

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

McHenry is located in Foster County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Foster County: Eddy, Griggs, Stutsman & Wells.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McHenry. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Foster 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 McHenry (which is Foster 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 McHenry

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

  • Foster County   (where McHenry resides)
    • County Seat for Foster:   Carrington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McHenry   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McHenry.
      • Juanita
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juanita have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita
        • Juanita is located in Foster County
      • Glenfield
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glenfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenfield
        • Glenfield is located in Foster County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glenfield <4>
      • Grace City
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grace City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grace City
        • Grace City is located in Foster County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 59 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grace City <4>
      • Bordulac
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bordulac have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bordulac
        • Bordulac is located in Foster County
      • Barlow
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Guptill
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Melville
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Carrington
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Barnes County
  • Benson County
  • Eddy County
  • Griggs County
    • County Seat for Griggs:   Cooperstown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McHenry   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McHenry.
      • Mose
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mose
        • Mose is located in Griggs County
      • Binford
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Binford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binford
        • Binford is located in Griggs County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 166 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Binford <4>
      • Sutton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Jessie
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Revere
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Revere have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Revere
        • Revere is located in Griggs County
      • Cooperstown
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Shepard
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shepard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepard
        • Shepard is located in Griggs County
      • Hannaford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Mardell ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mardell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mardell
        • Mardell is located in Griggs County
      • Walum
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Nelson County
    • County Seat for Nelson:   Lakota
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McHenry   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McHenry.
      • Tolna
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolna have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolna
        • Tolna is located in Nelson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tolna <4>
      • Pekin
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pekin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pekin
        • Pekin is located in Nelson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pekin <4>
      • McVille
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McVille have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McVille
        • McVille is located in Nelson County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 313 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McVille <4>
      • Wamduska ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wamduska have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wamduska
        • Wamduska is located in Nelson County
      • Harrisburg ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrisburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
        • Harrisburg is located in Nelson County
      • Kloten
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kloten have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kloten
        • Kloten is located in Nelson County
      • Aneta
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Stutsman County
    • County Seat for Stutsman:   Jamestown
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McHenry   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McHenry.
      • Kensal
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Courtenay
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Courtenay have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtenay
        • Courtenay is located in Stutsman County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 45 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Courtenay <4>
      • Edmunds
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edmunds have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmunds
        • Edmunds is located in Stutsman County

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 from Point A (ie- McHenry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McHenry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5763, Longitude: -98.5901    
<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.




 

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