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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 Cuba (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 Cuba. 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 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.

Cuba is located in Cass 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 Cass County: Aitkin, Beltrami, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, Morrison, Todd & Wadena.

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

  • Cass County     (The home county of Cuba)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Cass Lake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Ryan Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • Bena
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • North Central Cass
      (15 miles [24.1 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
    • Federal Dam
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Walker
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Ah-gwah-ching
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Ah-gwah-ching is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ah-gwah-ching
    • Whipholt
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Whipholt is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipholt
    • Boy River
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Boy River is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boy River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
    • Hackensack
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Longville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Pennington
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Rosby
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Rosby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosby
    • Lavinia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
    • Bemidji
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Turtle River
      (18 miles [29 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
    • Tenstrike
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Hines
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Blackduck
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Wilton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Wilton is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
    • Puposky
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Puposky is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puposky
    • Funkley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Funkley is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funkley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Langor
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Langor is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
    • Solway
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Hubbard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Laporte
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Benedict
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Benedict is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedict
    • Lake George
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Akeley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Itasca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Squaw Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Max
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Cuba ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cuba.

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

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

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

  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • John Brown Cutback Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Ten Lake Twp. Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Farris Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Green Lea Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Zion Memorial Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • East Side Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Rabbits Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Sugar Bush Twp. Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Malvik Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • St. Lawrence Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (55 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Cuba ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cuba.

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

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 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 Cuba:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cuba) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.