Nearest Communities to Willow City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Willow City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Willow City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Willow City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Willow City is located in Bottineau County.
The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bottineau County: McHenry, Pierce & Rolette.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willow City. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Bottineau 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 Willow City (which is Bottineau 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 Willow City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Bottineau County (where Willow City resides)
- 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 Willow City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow City.
- Belmar
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Belmar is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmar
- Tasco
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Tasco is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tasco
- Omemee ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Omemee is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omemee
- Overly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Overly is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Gardena
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Gardena is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
- Bottineau
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- White ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- White is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
- Kramer
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Carbury
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Carbury is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbury
- Souris
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Russell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Russell is located in Bottineau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
- Newburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Benson County
- County Website: https://www.bensoncountynd.com/
- County Seat for Benson: Minnewaukan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow City ...
- Pleasant Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Lake is located in Benson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Lake
- McHenry County
- County Website: https://www.mchenrycountynd.com/
- County Seat for McHenry: Towner
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow City.
- Cole Ford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cole Ford is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Ford
- Milroy
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Milroy is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milroy
- Berwick
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Berwick is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick
- Bantry
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Towner
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Upham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Denbigh
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Denbigh is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
- Riga
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Riga is located in McHenry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
- Pierce County
- County Website: https://www.piercecountynd.gov/
- County Seat for Pierce: Rugby
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow City.
- Barton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Barton is located in Pierce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
- Leverich
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Leverich is located in Pierce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leverich
- Tunbridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Tunbridge is located in Pierce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
- Rugby
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wolford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Rolette County
- County Website: https://rolettecountynd.gov/
- County Seat for Rolette: Rolla
- Note: The Canadian Province of Manitoba lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow City.
- Fonda
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Fonda is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fonda
- Dunseith
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Thorne
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Thorne is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorne
- San Haven
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- San Haven is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Haven
- Rolette
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- East Dunseith
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- East Dunseith is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dunseith
- Nanson
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Nanson is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nanson
- Shell Valley
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Shell Valley is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Valley
- Kelvin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Kelvin is located in Rolette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelvin
- Belcourt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mylo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Willow City) 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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