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Nearest Communities to Fargo,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>

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

Fargo is located in Ellis County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ellis County: Beaver, Dewey, Harper, Roger Mills, Woodward, Hemphill (TX) & Lipscomb (TX).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fargo. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Ellis 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 Fargo (which is Ellis 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 Fargo

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

  • Ellis County   (where Fargo resides)
    • County Seat for Ellis:   Arnett
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fargo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fargo.
      • Gage
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gage have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage
        • Gage is located in Ellis County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 406 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gage <4>
      • Chaney
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chaney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney
        • Chaney is located in Ellis County
      • Shattuck
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Harmon
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harmon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmon
        • Harmon is located in Ellis County
      • Arnett
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Touzalin
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Touzalin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Touzalin
        • Touzalin is located in Ellis County
      • Catesby
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Goodwin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodwin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin
        • Goodwin is located in Ellis County
  • Dewey County
  • Harper County
  • Woods County
    • County Seat for Woods:   Alva
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fargo   ...
      • Haskew ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haskew came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskew
        • Haskew is located in Woods County
  • Woodward County
  • Lipscomb County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lipscomb.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Lipscomb:   Lipscomb (TX)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fargo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fargo.
      • Magoun
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magoun have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magoun
        • Magoun is located in Lipscomb County (TX)
      • Higgins
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Follett
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Follett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Follett
        • Follett is located in Lipscomb County (TX)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 424 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Follett <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fargo) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fargo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3741, Longitude: -99.6235    
<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.
<5>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.