Nearest Communities to Oakdale,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Oakdale, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Oakdale:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 Oakdale.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Oakdale is located in Dunn County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dunn County: Billings, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail & Stark.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oakdale. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Dunn 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 Oakdale (which is Dunn 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 Oakdale
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dunn County (where Oakdale resides)
- County Seat for Dunn: Manning
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Dunn County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Dunn County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Dunn County
- Nearest Communities to Oakdale ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakdale.
- Medicine Hole
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medicine Hole have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Hole
- Medicine Hole is located in Dunn County
- Killdeer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Killdeer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killdeer
- Killdeer is located in Dunn County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,155 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Killdeer <4>
- Dunn Center
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunn Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunn Center
- Dunn Center is located in Dunn County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dunn Center <4>
- Fayette
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Manning
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
- Manning is located in Dunn County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manning <4>
- Werner
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Emerson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Halliday
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halliday
- Halliday is located in Dunn County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Halliday <4>
- Twin Buttes
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Buttes
- Twin Buttes is located in Dunn County
- Billings County
- County Seat for Billings: Medora
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Billings County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Billings County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Billings County
- Nearest Communities to Oakdale ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakdale.
- Fairfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
- Fairfield is located in Billings County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairfield <4>
- Gorham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- McKenzie County
- 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 Oakdale ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oakdale.
- Spotted Horn
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- 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
- Grassy Butte
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassy Butte
- Grassy Butte is located in McKenzie County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grassy Butte <4>
- Croff
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north) - Mandaree
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- 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>
- Johnsons Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- 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
- Schafer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Watford City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- 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>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oakdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.4731, Longitude: -102.8649 In this case, the coordinates for Oakdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |