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Nearest Communities to Towner,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Towner.<1>

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

Towner is located in McHenry County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McHenry County: Bottineau, McLean, Pierce, Renville, Sheridan & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 41 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Towner. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than McHenry 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 Towner (which is McHenry 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 Towner

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

  • McHenry County   (where Towner resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
    • County Seat for McHenry:   Towner
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Towner   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Towner.
      • Berwick
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Milroy
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Milroy is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milroy
      • Denbigh
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Denbigh is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
      • Cole Ford
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Cole Ford is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Ford
      • Bantry
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Riga
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Riga is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
      • Karlsruhe
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Granville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Upham
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Rangeley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Rangeley is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangeley
      • Verendrye
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Verendrye is located in McHenry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye
      • Guthrie
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Simcoe
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Simcoe is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simcoe
        • Funston
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Rising ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Balfour
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Bergen
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Bergen is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
        • Norwich
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Norwich is located in McHenry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwich
        • Drake
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Deering
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Genoa
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Voltaire
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Benson County
  • 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 Towner   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Towner.
      • Willow City
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Belmar
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Belmar is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmar
      • Gardena
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Gardena is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
      • Omemee ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Tasco
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Tasco is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tasco
      • Overly
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Overly is located in Bottineau County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overly
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
      • White ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Kramer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Pierce County
  • Rolette 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Towner) 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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