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Nearest Communities to White Shield,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from White Shield.<1>

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

White Shield is located in McLean County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McLean County: Burleigh, Dunn, McHenry, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Sheridan & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White Shield. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than McLean 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 White Shield (which is McLean 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 White Shield

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

  • McLean County   (where White Shield resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Shield   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Shield.
      • Roseglen
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Emmet
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Emmet is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmet
      • Nishu ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Nishu is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nishu
      • Raub
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Raub is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raub
      • Elbowoods ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Elbowoods is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbowoods
      • Lucky Mound ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Lucky Mound is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucky Mound
      • Garrison
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Riverdale
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Charging Eagle ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Charging Eagle is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charging Eagle
      • Shell Creek ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Shell Creek is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Creek
      • Max
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Max is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Max
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Max <3>
      • Coleharbor
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Dunn County
  • Mercer County
    • County Website:   https://www.mercercountynd.com/
    • County Seat for Mercer:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Shield   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Shield.
      • Beaver Creek ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Beaver Creek is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
      • Red Butte ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Red Butte is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
      • Pick City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Pick City is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pick City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
      • Krem ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Krem is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krem
      • Truax
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Truax is located in Mercer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truax
      • Zap
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • 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>
      • Beulah
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Golden Valley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Hazen
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Mountrail County
  • Ward County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- White Shield) 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.