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Nearest Communities to Rib Lake,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Please note 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.

Rib Lake is located in Taylor County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Taylor County: Chippewa, Clark, Lincoln, Marathon, Price & Rusk.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 64 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rib Lake. Of these communities, 48 are located in counties other than Taylor 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 Rib Lake (which is Taylor 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 Rib Lake

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

  • Taylor County   (where Rib Lake resides)
    • County Website:   https://co.taylor.wi.us/
    • County Seat for Taylor:   Medford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rib Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rib Lake.
      • Queenstown
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Queenstown is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenstown
      • Westboro
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Chelsea
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Interwald
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Whittlesey
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Whittlesey is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whittlesey
      • Goodrich
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Goodrich is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
      • Medford
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Murat
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Murat is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murat
      • Little Black
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Little Black is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Black
      • Stetsonville
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Stetsonville is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stetsonville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
      • Perkinstown
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Hughey ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Maplehurst
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Maplehurst is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplehurst
        • Hannibal
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Hannibal is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannibal
        • Jump River
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Lublin
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Lublin is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lublin
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
  • Clark County
    • County Website:   https://www.clarkcountywi.gov/
    • County Seat for Clark:   Neillsville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rib Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rib Lake.
      • Dorchester
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Dorchester is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
      • Abbotsford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Curtiss
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Colby
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Colby is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,941 people
      • Clark
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Clark is located in Clark County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark
      • Owen
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lincoln County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lincoln.wi.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Merrill
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rib Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rib Lake.
      • Spirit Falls
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Spirit Falls is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spirit Falls
      • Clifford
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Clifford is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford
      • Tripoli
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Tripoli is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tripoli
      • McCord
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • McCord is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
      • West Kraft
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • West Kraft is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Kraft
      • Otis
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Otis is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis
      • Jersey City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Jersey City is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
      • Tomahawk
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Gilbert
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Gilbert is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert
      • Irma
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Merrill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Merrill is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,990 people
      • Bradley
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Bradley is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
      • Heafford Junction
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Heafford Junction is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heafford Junction
  • Marathon County
  • Price County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.price.wi.us/
    • County Seat for Price:   Phillips
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rib Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rib Lake.
      • Ogema
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Ogema is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogema
      • Spirit
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Spirit is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spirit
      • Prentice
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Brantwood
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Brantwood is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantwood
      • Pennington
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Pennington is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Worcester
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Catawba
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Cranberry Lake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Cranberry Lake is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranberry Lake
      • Kennan
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Kennan is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
      • Dover
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Dover is located in Price County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
      • Phillips
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Rusk County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Rib Lake) 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.