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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 Andrusia (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 Andrusia. 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 hospitals and 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.

Andrusia is located in Beltrami County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beltrami County: Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington & Roseau.

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

  • Beltrami County     (The home county of Andrusia)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Andrusia, with the one closest to Andrusia listed first.
    • Lavinia
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
    • Pennington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Turtle River
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Turtle River is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Rosby
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Rosby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosby
    • Bemidji
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Tenstrike
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Hines
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Wilton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Wilton is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
    • Blackduck
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Puposky
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Puposky is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puposky
    • Langor
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Langor is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
    • Nebish
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Nebish is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebish
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Andrusia, with the one closest to Andrusia listed first.
    • Cass Lake
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Ryan Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • Bena
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • North Central Cass
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • North Central Cass is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Central Cass
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
    • Walker
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Federal Dam
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ah-gwah-ching
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ah-gwah-ching is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ah-gwah-ching
  • Clearwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Andrusia, with the one closest to Andrusia listed first.
    • Shevlin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Leonard
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Hubbard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Andrusia, with the one closest to Andrusia listed first.
    • Laporte
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Benedict
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Benedict is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedict
    • Lake George
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Itasca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Andrusia, with the one closest to Andrusia listed first.
    • Squaw Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Max
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Andrusia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Andrusia.

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 Andrusia - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ten Lake Twp. Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • East Side Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Sugar Bush Twp. Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • South Arm Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Arm Cemetery
    • The South Arm Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Turtle River Twp. Cemetery
  • John Brown Cutback Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Aardahl Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Farris Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Pine Ridge Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Nymore Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (68 more) ...
    • Holy Cross Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Greenwood Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Nary Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Andrusia ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Andrusia.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Andrusia, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Andrusia.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Andrusia:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Andrusia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.