Nearest Communities to La Pointe,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to La Pointe, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for La Pointe:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 La Pointe.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
La Pointe is located in Ashland County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ashland County: Bayfield, Iron, Price & Sawyer.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Pointe. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Ashland 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 La Pointe (which is Ashland 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 La Pointe
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Ashland County (where La Pointe resides)
- County Website: https://ashlandcountywi.gov/
- County Seat for Ashland: Ashland
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Pointe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Pointe.
- Middleport
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Middleport is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleport
- Old Fort
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Old Fort is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort
- Odanah
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Ashland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- White River
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Birch
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Birch is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch
- Sedgwick
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Sedgwick is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedgwick
- Marengo
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Sanborn
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Sanborn is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanborn
- Minersville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Minersville is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
- North York
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- North York is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North York
- High Bridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Bayfield County
- County Website: https://www.bayfieldcounty.wi.gov/
- County Seat for Bayfield: Washburn
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Pointe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Pointe.
- Bayfield
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pureair
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Pureair is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pureair
- Salmo
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Salmo is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmo
- Red Cliff
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Red Cliff is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cliff
- Sioux
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Sioux is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux
- Washburn
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sand Bay
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sand Bay is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Bay
- Barksdale
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Barksdale is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barksdale
- Cornucopia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Cornucopia is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
- Ashland Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ashland Junction is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Junction
- Moquah
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bark Point
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bark Point is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bark Point
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- Herbster
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Herbster is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herbster
- Benoit
(23 miles [37 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
- Mason
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mason is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Port Wing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Port Wing is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Wing
- Topside
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Topside is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Topside
- Pike River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Pike River is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike River
- Sutherland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Iron County
- County Website: http://www.co.iron.wi.gov/
- County Seat for Iron: Hurley
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the northwest
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Pointe ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Pointe.
- Cedar
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Gurney
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Gurney is located in Iron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gurney
- Saxon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Saxon is located in Iron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saxon
- Kimball
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kimball is located in Iron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- La Pointe) 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. |