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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Dollar Settlement (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Dollar Settlement. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest 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 north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Dollar Settlement is located in Chippewa County.

To see how the shape of Michigan's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chippewa County: Luce & Mackinac.

Below are the counties that are near Dollar Settlement. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dollar Settlement:

  • Chippewa County     (The home county of Dollar Settlement)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dollar Settlement, with the one closest to Dollar Settlement listed first.
    • Bay Mills
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Bay Mills is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Mills
    • Brimley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Strongs
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Strongs is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs
    • Emerson
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Emerson is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
    • Eckerman
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Dafter
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Dafter is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dafter
    • Kinross
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Dryburg
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Dryburg is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryburg
    • Fibre
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Fibre is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fibre
    • Rudyard
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Sault Sainte Marie
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Paradise
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Dick
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Dick is located in Chippewa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dick
  • Mackinac County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dollar Settlement, with the one closest to Dollar Settlement listed first.
    • Ozark
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Ozark is located in Mackinac County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
    • Kenneth
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Kenneth is located in Mackinac County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneth
    • Simmons ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Simmons is located in Mackinac County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simmons
    • Fiborn ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Fiborn is located in Mackinac County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiborn
      • Fiborn has also been known as:
      • Fiborn Quarry
    • Pontchartrain Shores
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Pontchartrain Shores is located in Mackinac County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontchartrain Shores

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dollar Settlement, see our County-by-County Page for Dollar Settlement.

Cemeteries Near Dollar Settlement ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dollar Settlement.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Dollar Settlement - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dollar Settlement covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dollar Settlement, with the one closest to Dollar Settlement listed first.

  • Dollar Settlement Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mission Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Old Mission Indian Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Bayview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Naomikong Point Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Colbert Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Rudyard Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Cottage Park Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Dafter Twp. Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Lake View Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (39 more) ...
    • West Korah Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Baptist Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Our Lady of Victory Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Dollar Settlement in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dollar Settlement.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Dollar Settlement, with the one closest to Dollar Settlement listed first.

  • Bay Mills
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Bay Mills is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Mills
  • Eckerman
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Emerson
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Emerson is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
  • Kinross
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Rudyard
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Donaldson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Donaldson is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donaldson
  • Rosedale
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Rosedale is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
  • Trout Lake
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Whitefish Point
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Whitefish Point is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitefish Point
  • Ozark
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Ozark is located in Mackinac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark
  • Barbeau
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Soo Junction
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Soo Junction is located in Luce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soo Junction
  • Pickford
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Stirlingville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Stirlingville is located in Chippewa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stirlingville

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dollar Settlement. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dollar Settlement.

Newspapers Published in Dollar Settlement ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dollar Settlement.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dollar Settlement, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dollar Settlement.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Dollar Settlement:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dollar Settlement) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dollar Settlement, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.