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

Guthrie is located in Hubbard 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 Hubbard County: Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater & Wadena.

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

  • Hubbard County     (The home county of Guthrie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Guthrie, with the one closest to Guthrie listed first.
    • Laporte
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Benedict
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Benedict is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedict
    • Lake George
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Akeley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Nevis
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Dorset
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Dorset is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
    • Park Rapids
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Becker County
    • Two Inlets
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Two Inlets is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Inlets
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Guthrie, with the one closest to Guthrie listed first.
    • Rosby
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Rosby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosby
    • Bemidji
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Lavinia
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
    • Wilton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Wilton is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
    • Turtle River
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Turtle River is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Pennington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Solway
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Tenstrike
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Pinewood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinewood is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood
    • Puposky
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Puposky is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puposky
    • Hines
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Guthrie, with the one closest to Guthrie listed first.
    • Cass Lake
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Walker
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ah-gwah-ching
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Ah-gwah-ching is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ah-gwah-ching
    • North Central Cass
      (21 miles [33.8 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
    • Ryan Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • Whipholt
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Whipholt is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipholt
    • Bena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Federal Dam
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Hackensack
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Clearwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Guthrie, with the one closest to Guthrie listed first.
    • Shevlin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Long Lost Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Long Lost Lake is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lost Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 44 people
    • Minerva
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Minerva is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva

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

Cemeteries Near Guthrie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Guthrie.

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

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

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

  • Guthrie Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • St. Lawrence Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Zion Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Malvik Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Nary Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • St. Theodores Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Green Lea Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lakeport Twp. Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Farris Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Aardahl Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (61 more) ...

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 Guthrie in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Guthrie.

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

  • Park Rapids
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Hackensack
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Guthrie ...

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 Guthrie.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Guthrie. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Guthrie and those printed in the larger area surrounding Guthrie.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4> of Guthrie.

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 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 Guthrie:

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