Nearest Communities to Sand Bay,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sand Bay, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sand Bay:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 starting from Sand Bay.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sand Bay 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 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand Bay. Of these communities, 9 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 Sand Bay (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 Sand Bay
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Bayfield County (where Sand Bay 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 Sand Bay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Bay.
- Red Cliff
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Red Cliff is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cliff
- Bayfield
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Bayfield is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 474 people
- Pureair
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Pureair is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pureair
- Salmo
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Salmo is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmo
- Cornucopia
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cornucopia is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
- Sioux
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Sioux is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux
- Bark Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Bark Point is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bark Point
- Washburn
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Washburn is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,049 people
- Herbster
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Herbster is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herbster
- Barksdale
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Barksdale is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barksdale
- Ashland Junction
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Ashland Junction is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Junction
- Port Wing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Port Wing is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Wing
- Moquah
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Moquah is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moquah
- Ashland County
- County Website: https://ashlandcountywi.gov/
- County Seat for Ashland: Ashland
- Note: Lake Superior lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand Bay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Bay.
- La Pointe
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- La Pointe is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Pointe
- Middleport
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Middleport is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleport
- Old Fort
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Old Fort is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort
- Ashland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ashland is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,766 people
- Odanah
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Odanah is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odanah
- White River
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- White River is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
- Lake County
- County Website: https://www.co.lake.mn.us/
- County Seat for Lake: Two Harbors (MN)
- Note: The Canadian Province of Ontario lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand Bay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Bay.
- Beaver Bay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- East Beaver Bay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- East Beaver Bay is located in Lake County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Beaver Bay
- Silver Bay
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sand Bay) 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. |
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