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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 Website:   https://dunncountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for Dunn:   Manning
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oakdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oakdale.
      • Medicine Hole
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Medicine Hole is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Hole
      • Killdeer
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Dunn Center
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Fayette
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Fayette is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette
      • Manning
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Werner
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Werner is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Werner
      • Emerson
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Emerson is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
      • Halliday
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Twin Buttes
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Twin Buttes is located in Dunn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Buttes
  • Billings County
  • McKenzie County

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- Oakdale) 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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