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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 Hendricks (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 Hendricks. 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.

Hendricks is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Lyon, Pipestone, Yellow Medicine, Brookings (SD) & Deuel (SD).

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Hendricks)
  • Lac qui Parle County
  • Lyon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • Taunton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Minneota
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Ghent
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Florence
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Florence is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Russell
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Russell is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 343 people
    • Lynd
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Pipestone County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • Ruthton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Holland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Holland is located in Pipestone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
  • Yellow Medicine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • Porter
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Porter is located in Yellow Medicine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
    • Canby
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Leo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Leo is located in Yellow Medicine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Leo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 90 people
  • Brookings County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • White
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • White is located in Brookings County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White <1>
    • Bushnell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Elkton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • North Grove Addition
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • North Grove Addition is located in Brookings County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grove Addition
      • Estimated population in 2014: 471 people
    • Aurora
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Aurora is located in Brookings County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 866 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aurora <1>
    • Sunnyview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Brookings
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Bruce
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Medary
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Medary is located in Brookings County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medary
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,442 people
    • Volga
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Deuel County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • Astoria
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Toronto
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Brandt
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Brandt is located in Deuel County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brandt <1>
    • Johnsonville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Gary
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Gary is located in Deuel County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gary <1>
    • Clear Lake
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Moritz
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Altamont
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Altamont is located in Deuel County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
    • Tunerville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Tunerville is located in Deuel County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunerville
      • Estimated population in 2014: 218 people
    • Bemis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hamlin County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks, with the one closest to Hendricks listed first.
    • Estelline
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Dempster
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Moody County (SD)
    • Ward
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Ward is located in Moody County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ward <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Hendricks ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hendricks.

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

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hendricks had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Hendricks had a population of 668 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hendricks ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hendricks.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hendricks. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hendricks and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hendricks.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Hendricks.

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 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 Hendricks:

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