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Nearest Communities to Northwood,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Northwood is located in Grand Forks County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grand Forks County: Polk (MN), Nelson, Steele, Traill & Walsh.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 50 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Northwood. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Grand Forks 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 Northwood (which is Grand Forks 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 Northwood

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

  • Grand Forks County   (where Northwood resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.gfcounty.nd.gov/
    • County Seat for Grand Forks:   Grand Forks
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Northwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Northwood.
      • Kempton
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Kempton is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempton
      • Holmes
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Holmes is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes
      • Larimore
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Logan Center
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Logan Center is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Center
      • Arvilla
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Hannah Junction
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Hannah Junction is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannah Junction
      • Emerado
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Shawnee
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Shawnee is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawnee
      • Ojata ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Ojata is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojata
      • McCanna
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • McCanna is located in Grand Forks County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCanna
      • Reynolds
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Thompson
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Honeyford
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Honeyford is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honeyford
        • Mekinock
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Merrifield
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Merrifield is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrifield
        • Kelly
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Kelly is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly
        • Powell
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Powell is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Niagara
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Gilby
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Gilby is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilby
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 230 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gilby <3>
        • Orr
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Orr is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orr
        • Calspur
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Calspur is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calspur
        • Grand Forks
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • North Grand Forks
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • North Grand Forks is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grand Forks
        • Inkster
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Johnstown
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Johnstown is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
        • Manvel
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Manvel is located in Grand Forks County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manvel
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 372 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manvel <3>
  • Griggs County
  • Nelson County
  • Steele County
    • County Website:   https://steelecountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Steele:   Finley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Northwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Northwood.
      • Interlaken ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Interlaken is located in Steele County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interlaken
      • Sharon
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Finley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Sherbrooke
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Sherbrooke is located in Steele County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherbrooke
      • Pickert
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Pickert is located in Steele County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickert
      • Blabon
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Blabon is located in Steele County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blabon
      • Hope
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Traill County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.traill.nd.us/
    • County Seat for Traill:   Hillsboro
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Northwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Northwood.
      • Hatton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Portland Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Portland Junction is located in Traill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portland Junction
      • Portland
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Mayville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Roseville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Roseville is located in Traill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseville
      • Buxton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Murray
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Murray is located in Traill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray
      • Clifford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Cummings
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Taft
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Taft is located in Traill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
  • Polk County

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- Northwood) 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.
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