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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 Carp (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 Carp. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Carp is located in Lake of the Woods County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake of the Woods County: Beltrami, Koochiching & Roseau.

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

  • Lake of the Woods County     (The home county of Carp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carp, with the one closest to Carp listed first.
    • Baudette
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baudette
      • Baudette is located in Lake of the Woods County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,018 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baudette <1>
    • Pitt
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitt
      • Pitt is located in Lake of the Woods County
    • Clementson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clementson
      • Clementson is located in Lake of the Woods County
    • Williams
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
      • Williams is located in Lake of the Woods County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williams <1>
  • Beltrami County
  • Koochiching County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carp, with the one closest to Carp listed first.
    • Border
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border
      • Border is located in Koochiching County
    • Birchdale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Birchdale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchdale
      • Birchdale is located in Koochiching County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Birchdale <1>
  • Roseau County
    • Roosevelt
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roosevelt have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt
      • Roosevelt is located in Roseau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 138 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roosevelt <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Carp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Carp.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Hamilton Farm Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hamilton Farm Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hamilton Farm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bankton Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bankton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bankton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Elm Park Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elm Park Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elm Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Silver Creek Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Silver Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Potamo - Parke Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Potamo - Parke Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Potamo - Parke Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Clementson Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clementson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clementson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Forest Lawn Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Graceton Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graceton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Graceton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverdale Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverdale Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverdale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Blue Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Blue Public Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Pine Hill Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Wildwood Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wildwood Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wildwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Stratton Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Hillside Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Carp ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Carp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Carp, 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 Carp.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Carp:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Carp. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Lake of the Woods County: www.co.lake-of-the-woods.mn.us/

The official website for State of Minnesota: https://mn.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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>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- Carp) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Carp. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5052, Longitude: -94.6472       In this case, the coordinates for Carp have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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