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Nearest Communities to Woodruff,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 starting from Woodruff.<1>

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

Woodruff is primarily located in Oneida County. A portion of Woodruff extends into Vilas County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oneida County: Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Price & Vilas.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 52 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Woodruff. Of these communities, 33 are located in counties other than Oneida 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 Woodruff (which is Oneida 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 Woodruff

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

  • Oneida County   (where Woodruff resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.oneidacountywi.gov/
    • County Seat for Oneida:   Rhinelander
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Woodruff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Woodruff.
      • Minocqua
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Minocqua is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minocqua
      • Rantz
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Rantz is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rantz
      • Hazelhurst
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Sunflower
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Sunflower is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunflower
      • Lake Tomahawk
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Lake Tomahawk is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Tomahawk
      • Goodnow
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Goodnow is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodnow
      • McNaughton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • McNaughton is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNaughton
      • Harshaw
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Newbold
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Newbold is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newbold
      • Sugar Camp
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Woodboro
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Woodboro is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodboro
      • Manson ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Manson is located in Oneida County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Rhinelander
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Clearwater Lake
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Clearwater Lake is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearwater Lake
        • Crescent Corner
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Crescent Corner is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Corner
        • Roosevelt
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Roosevelt is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt
        • Three Lakes
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Three Lakes is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Lakes
        • Malvern
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Malvern is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malvern
        • Starks
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Starks is located in Oneida County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starks
  • 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 Woodruff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Woodruff.
      • Powell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Powell is located in Iron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Manitowish
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Springstead
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Springstead is located in Iron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springstead
      • Mercer
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Mercer is located in Iron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercer
      • Carter
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Carter is located in Iron County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
  • Lincoln County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lincoln.wi.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Merrill
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Woodruff   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Woodruff.
      • Bradley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Bradley is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
      • Heafford Junction
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Heafford Junction is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heafford Junction
      • McCord
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • McCord is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
      • Tripoli
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Tripoli is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tripoli
      • Jersey City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Jersey City is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
      • Clifford
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Clifford is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford
      • Tomahawk
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Harrison
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Bundy
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bundy is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bundy
      • Jeffris
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Jeffris is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffris
  • Price County
  • Vilas County
  • Gogebic 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Woodruff) 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.