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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 Clotho (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 Clotho. 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 and hospitals 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.

Clotho is located in Todd 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 Todd County: Douglas, Morrison, Otter Tail, Stearns & Wadena.

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

  • Todd County     (The home county of Clotho)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clotho, with the one closest to Clotho listed first.
    • Clarissa
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Long Prairie
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Eagle Bend
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Browerville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Browerville is located in Todd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browerville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 744 people
    • West Union
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • West Union is located in Todd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
    • Bertha
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Pillsbury
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Grey Eagle
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Burtrum
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hewitt
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Hewitt is located in Todd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewitt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
    • Philbrook
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Staples
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Douglas County
  • Morrison County
  • Otter Tail County
  • Pope County
  • Stearns County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clotho, with the one closest to Clotho listed first.
    • Sauk Centre
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Saint Rosa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Saint Rosa is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Rosa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
    • Melrose
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Meire Grove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Meire Grove is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meire Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
    • Freeport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Greenwald
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • New Munich
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Anthony
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Saint Anthony is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Anthony
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
  • Wadena County

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

Cemeteries Near Clotho ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clotho.

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

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

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

  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Freemans Creek Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Freemans Creek Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Pleasant Mound Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Reynolds Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Deer Park Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Gordon Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Spruce Hill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Stallcop Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Reynolds Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (190 more) ...
    • German Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • St. Mary Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Evergreen Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Clotho had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Clarissa
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Belle River
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Long Prairie
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Browerville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Browerville is located in Todd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browerville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 744 people
  • Eagle Bend
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Round Prairie
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Round Prairie is located in Todd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Prairie
  • Osakis
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Little Sauk
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Little Sauk is located in Todd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Sauk
  • Miltona
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Nelson
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Nelson is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
  • West Union
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • West Union is located in Todd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
  • Parkers Prairie
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Clotho ...

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 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clotho.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clotho, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clotho.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Clotho:

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>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 Clotho, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Clotho) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.