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Nearest Communities to Carroll,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 starting from Carroll.<1>

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

Carroll is located in Wayne County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wayne County: Cedar, Cuming, Dixon, Madison, Pierce, Stanton & Thurston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 50 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Carroll. Of these communities, 45 are located in counties other than Wayne 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 Carroll (which is Wayne 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 Carroll

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

  • Wayne County   (where Carroll resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.waynecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Wayne:   Wayne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carroll   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carroll.
      • Sholes
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Sholes is located in Wayne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sholes
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
      • Winside
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Wayne
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Hoskins
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Altona
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Altona is located in Wayne County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altona
  • Cedar County
    • County Website:   https://cedarcountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Cedar:   Hartington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carroll   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carroll.
      • Belden
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Laurel
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Randolph
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Coleridge
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Magnet
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Hartington
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Pleasant Valley
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Obert
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Obert is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obert
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
      • Bow Valley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Bow Valley is located in Cedar County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bow Valley
      • Fordyce
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Cuming County
  • Dakota County
  • Dixon County
    • County Website:   https://dixoncountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Dixon:   Ponca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carroll   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carroll.
      • Concord
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Dixon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Wakefield
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Allen
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Emerson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Martinsburg
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Martinsburg is located in Dixon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsburg
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
      • Waterbury
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lime Grove
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Lime Grove is located in Dixon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime Grove
      • Maskell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Maskell is located in Dixon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maskell
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
      • Newcastle
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Knox County
  • Madison County
  • Pierce County
    • County Website:   https://piercecountyne.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Pierce
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carroll   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carroll.
      • West Randolph ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • West Randolph is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Randolph
      • Wee Town
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Wee Town is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wee Town
      • McLean
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hadar
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Pierce
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Osmond
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Foster
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Breslau
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Breslau is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breslau
      • Plainview
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Stanton County
  • Thurston 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Carroll) 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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