Our Genealogy Helper
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 Buhl (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 Buhl. 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.
Buhl is located in Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis County: Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake & Douglas (WI).
Below are the counties that are near Buhl. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Buhl:
- Saint Louis County (The home county of Buhl)
- The following are listed by their distance from Buhl, with the one closest to Buhl listed first.
- Kinney
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Kinney is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinney
- Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
- Scott
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Scott is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott
- Chisholm
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Mountain Iron
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Ruby Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ruby Junction is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby Junction
- Leonidas
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Leonidas is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonidas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
- Iron Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Iron Junction is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Junction
- Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
- Hibbing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Virginia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Ramshaw
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ramshaw is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramshaw
- Eveleth
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Forbes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Itasca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Buhl, with the one closest to Buhl listed first.
- Keewatin
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Keewatin is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keewatin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,010 people
- Nashwauk
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Pengilly
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Calumet
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Marble
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Goodland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Goodland is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
- Taconite
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Taconite is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taconite
- Population from the 2020 Census: 629 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Buhl, see our County-by-County Page for Buhl.
Cemeteries Near Buhl ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Buhl.
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 Buhl - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Buhl covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Buhl, with the one closest to Buhl listed first.
- Lake View Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Cemetery
- The Lake View Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lakeview Cemetery
- Bethel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Chisholm Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Grandview Memorial Garden
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hibbing Park Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Old Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Maple Hill Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Eveleth Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Forbes Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gilbert Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Little Swan Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Continue List (36 more) ...
- Zim Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Florenton Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Keewatin Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
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 Buhl in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Buhl.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Buhl, with the one closest to Buhl listed first.
- Midway
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Hinsdale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Hinsdale is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinsdale
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Buhl. See our List of 1890's Communities around Buhl.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Buhl ...
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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Buhl.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Buhl. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Buhl and those printed in the larger area surrounding Buhl.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Buhl.
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 Buhl:
- Websites specific to Minnesota
- Pages specific to Saint Louis County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Minnesota
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 Buhl, 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 from Point A (ie- Buhl) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |