Nearest Communities to Williston,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Williston, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Williston:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Williston.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Williston is located in Williams County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Williams County: Roosevelt (MT), Sheridan (MT), Burke, Divide, McKenzie & Mountrail.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Williston. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Williams 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 Williston (which is Williams 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 Williston
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Williams County (where Williston resides)
- County Seat for Williams: Williston
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- Williams County
- Nearest Communities to Williston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Williston.
- Avoca
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast) - Springbrook
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbrook
- Springbrook is located in Williams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 41 people
- Trenton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trenton
- Trenton is located in Williams County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trenton <4>
- Lake Jessie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Jessie
- Lake Jessie is located in Williams County
- Epping
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Epping have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epping
- Epping is located in Williams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Epping <4>
- Marley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - Marmon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north) - Wheelock
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Bonetraill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonetraill
- Bonetraill is located in Williams County
- Buford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Lunds Landing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lunds Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunds Landing
- Lunds Landing is located in Williams County
- West Bonetraill
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Bonetraill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bonetraill
- West Bonetraill is located in Williams County
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- Ray
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ray
- Ray is located in Williams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 943 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ray <4>
- Gladys
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Appam
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appam
- Appam is located in Williams County
- Zahl
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zahl
- Zahl is located in Williams County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zahl <4>
- Alamo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
- Alamo is located in Williams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 81 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alamo <4>
- Temple
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Ray
- McKenzie County
- County Seat for McKenzie: Watford City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- From Family Search:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- Nearest Communities to Williston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Williston.
- Banks ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Alexander
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
- Alexander is located in McKenzie County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 352 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alexander <4>
- Charbonneau
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charbonneau
- Charbonneau is located in McKenzie County
- Rawson
(23 miles [37 km] to the south) - Cartwright
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartwright
- Cartwright is located in McKenzie County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cartwright <4>
- Dore
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dore
- Dore is located in McKenzie County
- Arnegard
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arnegard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnegard
- Arnegard is located in McKenzie County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 179 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arnegard <4>
- Harding
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harding
- Harding is located in McKenzie County
- East Fairview
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fairview
- East Fairview is located in McKenzie County
- Watford City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watford City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watford City
- Watford City is located in McKenzie County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,944 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Watford City <4>
- Richland County
- County Website: www.richland.org/
- County Seat for Richland: Sidney (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Richland County
- Nearest Communities to Williston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Williston.
- Nohly
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Fairview
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Fairview is located in Richland County (MT)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 882 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairview <4>
- Ludington
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Roosevelt County
- County Seat for Roosevelt: Wolf Point (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Roosevelt County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Roosevelt County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Roosevelt County
- Nearest Communities to Williston ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Williston.
- Fort Union ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Union have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Union
- Fort Union is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
- Snowden
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest) - Lakeside
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Bainville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bainville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bainville
- Bainville is located in Roosevelt County (MT)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 317 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bainville <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Williston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Williston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1542, Longitude: -103.6231 |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |