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Nearest Communities to Wales,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Wales is located in Cavalier County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cavalier County: Pembina, Ramsey, Towner & Walsh.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wales. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Cavalier 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 Wales (which is Cavalier 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 Wales

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

  • Cavalier County   (where Wales resides)
    • County Website:   https://cavaliercounty.us/
    • County Seat for Cavalier:   Langdon
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wales   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wales.
      • Hannah
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Dresden
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Dresden is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresden
      • Mount Carmel
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Mount Carmel is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
      • Maida
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Langdon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Calvin
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Clyde
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Clyde is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Alsen
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Loma
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Loma is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
      • Munich
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Munich is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munich
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
      • Sarles
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Easby
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Easby is located in Cavalier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easby
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Vang
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Vang is located in Cavalier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vang
        • Weaver
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Weaver is located in Cavalier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
        • Nekoma
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Calio
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Calio is located in Cavalier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calio
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
        • Osnabrock
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Olga
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Olga is located in Cavalier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
  • Ramsey County
  • Towner County
    • County Website:   https://www.tccounty.com/
    • County Seat for Towner:   Cando
    • Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wales   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wales.
      • Crocus
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Crocus is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocus
      • Olmstead
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Olmstead is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olmstead
      • Egeland
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Newville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Newville is located in Towner County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newville
      • Rocklake
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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- Wales) 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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