Nearest Communities to Ralston,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ralston, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ralston:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Ralston is located in Ward County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ward County: Burke, McHenry, McLean, Mountrail & Renville.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ralston. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Ward 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 Ralston (which is Ward 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 Ralston
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Ward County (where Ralston resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.ward.nd.us/
- County Seat for Ward: Minot
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ralston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ralston.
- Burlington
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Des Lacs
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Drady
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Drady is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drady
- Lonetree
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Minot
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Foxholm
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Foxholm is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxholm
- Ruthville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ruthville is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthville
- Berthold
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Hesnault
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Hesnault is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesnault
- Surrey
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- South Prairie
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- South Prairie is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Prairie
- Logan
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Logan is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Carpio
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Hartland
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Hartland is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
- Wolseth
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wolseth is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolseth
- Sawyer
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Aurelia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Aurelia is located in Ward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurelia
- Ryder
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Makoti
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Donnybrook
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Douglas
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Bottineau County
- County Website: https://www.bottineauco.com/
- County Seat for Bottineau: Bottineau
- Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north and the Province of Saskatchewan to the northwest
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ralston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ralston.
- Forfar
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Forfar is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forfar
- Lansford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hurd
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hurd is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
- Truro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Truro is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
- McHenry County
- County Website: https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
- County Seat for McHenry: Towner
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ralston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ralston.
- Genoa
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Genoa is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
- Norwich
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Norwich is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwich
- Deering
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Rising ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Rising is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising
- Simcoe
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Simcoe is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simcoe
- Velva
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Granville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- McLean County
- Mountrail County
- County Website: https://www.co.mountrail.nd.us/
- County Seat for Mountrail: Stanley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ralston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ralston.
- Tagus
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Tagus is located in Mountrail County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagus
- Prairie Junction
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Prairie Junction is located in Mountrail County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Junction
- Plaza
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Blaisdell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wabek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Wabek is located in Mountrail County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabek
- Renville County
- County Website: https://www.renvillecountynd.org/
- County Seat for Renville: Mohall
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ralston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ralston.
- Glenburn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Chola
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Chola is located in Renville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chola
- Grano
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Grano is located in Renville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grano
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
- Greene
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Greene is located in Renville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greene
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ralston) 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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