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Nearest Communities to Truax,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Truax is located in Mercer County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mercer County: Dunn, McLean, Morton, Oliver & Stark.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Truax. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Mercer 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 Truax (which is Mercer 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 Truax

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

  • Mercer County   (where Truax resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mercercountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Mercer:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Truax   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Truax.
      • Krem ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Krem is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krem
      • Hazen
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Beulah
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Stanton
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Knife River Village
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Knife River Village is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River Village
      • Pick City
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Pick City is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pick City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
      • Zap
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Zap is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zap
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zap <3>
      • Beaver Creek ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Beaver Creek is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
      • Golden Valley
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Red Butte ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Red Butte is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
  • Dunn County
  • McLean County
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Truax   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Truax.
      • Riverdale
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Nishu ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Nishu is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nishu
      • Emmet
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Emmet is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmet
      • Garrison
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • White Shield
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • White Shield is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Shield
      • Coleharbor
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Riverdale Junction
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Riverdale Junction is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Junction
      • Underwood
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Falkirk
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Falkirk is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falkirk
      • Roseglen
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Elbowoods ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Elbowoods is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbowoods
      • Washburn
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Morton County
  • Oliver County
    • County Website:   https://olivercountynd.org/
    • County Seat for Oliver:   Center
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Truax   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Truax.
      • Hannover
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Hannover is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannover
      • Fort Clark
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Clark is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark
      • Otter Creek
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Otter Creek is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otter Creek
      • Center
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Hensler
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Hensler is located in Oliver County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensler

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Truax) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.