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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 Aure (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 Aure. 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 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.

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 south 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.

Aure 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 Aure. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Aure:

  • Beltrami County     (The home county of Aure)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aure, with the one closest to Aure listed first.
    • Debs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Debs is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Debs
    • Pinewood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Pinewood is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood
    • Puposky
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Puposky is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puposky
    • Island Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Island Lake is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Lake
    • Solway
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Wilton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Wilton is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
    • Little Rock
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Little Rock is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rock
    • Red Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Nebish
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Nebish is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebish
    • Redby
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Redby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redby
    • Bemidji
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Lavinia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
  • Clearwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aure, with the one closest to Aure listed first.
    • Leonard
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Shevlin
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Clearbrook
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Bagley
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Bagley is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,439 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bagley <1>
    • Gonvick
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Minerva
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Minerva is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva
    • Rice Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Rice Lake is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aure, with the one closest to Aure listed first.
    • Gully
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Gully is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gully
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
    • Lengby
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Lengby is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lengby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Trail
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Trail is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
    • Fosston
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Aure ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Aure.

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

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

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

  • Buzzle Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • East Zion Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Pinewood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Roosevelt Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt Cemetery
    • The Roosevelt Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Debs Cemetery
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sinclair Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Dudley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Clover Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Island Lake Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Norway Lake Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Lammers Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (98 more) ...
    • Eckles Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • East Seljord Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Seljord Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Red Lake
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Olga
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Olga is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
  • Fosston
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Aure ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Aure.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Aure, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Aure.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Aure:

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>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 Aure, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Aure) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.