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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 Manannah (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 Manannah. 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 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 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.

Manannah is located in Meeker 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 Meeker County: Kandiyohi, McLeod, Renville, Stearns & Wright.

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

  • Meeker County     (The home county of Manannah)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Manannah, with the one closest to Manannah listed first.
    • Eden Valley
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Grove City
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Forest City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Litchfield
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Watkins
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Kingston
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Kingston is located in Meeker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 162 people
    • Rosendale
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Darwin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Dassel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Cedar Mills
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Cosmos
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Kandiyohi County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Manannah, with the one closest to Manannah listed first.
    • Atwater
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Hawick
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Regal
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Regal is located in Kandiyohi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Spicer
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Spicer is located in Kandiyohi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,224 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spicer <1>
    • New London
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Kandiyohi
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Kandiyohi is located in Kandiyohi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kandiyohi
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 477 people
    • Willmar
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Wilmar
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Lillian
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Svea
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Pennock
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Pennock is located in Kandiyohi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 509 people
    • Blomkest
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Blomkest is located in Kandiyohi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blomkest
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 157 people
  • McLeod County
  • Stearns County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Manannah, with the one closest to Manannah listed first.
    • Paynesville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Roscoe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Richmond
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Kimball Prairie
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Kimball Prairie is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Prairie
    • Kimball
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Cold Spring
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake Henry
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake Henry is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Henry
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
    • Saint Martin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Fairhaven
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Rockville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Spring Hill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Spring Hill is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 95 people
    • Belgrade
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Belgrade is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belgrade
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 787 people
  • Wright County

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

Cemeteries Near Manannah ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Manannah.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Manannah, with the one closest to Manannah 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.<2>

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

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

  • Eden Valley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Crow River
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Crow River is located in Meeker County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow River
  • Grove City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Forest City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Litchfield
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Paynesville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Watkins
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Atwater
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Saint Nicholas
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Nicholas is located in Stearns County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Nicholas
  • Roscoe
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Richmond
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Rosendale
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Darwin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Kingston
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Kingston is located in Meeker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 162 people
    • Kimball Prairie
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Kimball Prairie is located in Stearns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball Prairie

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

Newspapers Published in Manannah ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Manannah.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Manannah:

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 Manannah, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Manannah) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.