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 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.
Keep in mind 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: www.bayfieldcounty.org/
- County Seat for Bayfield: Washburn
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wisconsin
- Bayfield County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wisconsin
- Bayfield County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wisconsin
- Bayfield County
- Nearest Communities to Bayfield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bayfield.
- Pureair
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Red Cliff
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Salmo
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Sioux
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Sand Bay
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Washburn
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Washburn is located in Bayfield County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,049 people
- Cornucopia
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cornucopia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
- Cornucopia is located in Bayfield County
- Barksdale
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Ashland Junction
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ashland Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Junction
- Ashland Junction is located in Bayfield County
- Bark Point
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bark Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bark Point
- Bark Point is located in Bayfield County
- Moquah
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moquah
- Moquah is located in Bayfield County
- Herbster
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Benoit
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benoit
- Benoit is located in Bayfield County
- Ino
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Port Wing
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Mason
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Topside
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Sutherland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutherland
- Sutherland is located in Bayfield County
- Benoit
- Ashland County
- County Website: www.co.ashland.wi.us/
- County Seat for Ashland: Ashland
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wisconsin
- Ashland County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wisconsin
- Ashland County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wisconsin
- Ashland County
- Nearest Communities to Bayfield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bayfield.
- La Pointe
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Pointe
- La Pointe is located in Ashland County
- Middleport
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middleport have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleport
- Middleport is located in Ashland County
- Old Fort
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Ashland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
- Ashland is located in Ashland County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,766 people
- Odanah
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odanah
- Odanah is located in Ashland County
- White River
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White River have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
- White River is located in Ashland County
- Birch
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Sedgwick
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Marengo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marengo
- Marengo is located in Ashland County
- Sanborn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Minersville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
- Minersville is located in Ashland County
- North York
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North York have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North York
- North York is located in Ashland County
- High Bridge
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Bridge
- High Bridge is located in Ashland County
- Iron County
- County Seat for Iron: Hurley
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the northwest
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wisconsin
- Iron County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wisconsin
- Iron County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wisconsin
- Iron County
- Nearest Communities to Bayfield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bayfield.
- Cedar
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Gurney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Saxon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
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 from Point A (ie- Bayfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bayfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.8110, Longitude: -90.8159 |
| <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. |