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Nearest Communities to Bayfield,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

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

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

Bayfield is located in Bayfield County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bayfield County: Ashland, Douglas, Sawyer & Washburn.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bayfield. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Bayfield 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 Bayfield (which is Bayfield 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 Bayfield

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

  • Bayfield County   (where Bayfield resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bayfieldcounty.wi.gov/
    • County Seat for Bayfield:   Washburn
    • Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bayfield   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bayfield.
      • Pureair
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Pureair is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pureair
      • Red Cliff
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Red Cliff is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cliff
      • Salmo
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Salmo is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmo
      • Sioux
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Sioux is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux
      • Sand Bay
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Sand Bay is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Bay
      • Washburn
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Cornucopia
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Cornucopia is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
      • Barksdale
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Barksdale is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barksdale
      • Ashland Junction
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ashland Junction is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Junction
      • Bark Point
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Bark Point is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bark Point
      • Moquah
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Herbster
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Herbster is located in Bayfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herbster
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Benoit
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Ino
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Ino is located in Bayfield County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ino
        • Port Wing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Port Wing is located in Bayfield County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Wing
        • Mason
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Mason is located in Bayfield County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
        • Topside
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Topside is located in Bayfield County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Topside
        • Sutherland
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ashland County
  • Iron 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 from Point A (ie- Bayfield) 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.