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 Maple Hill (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 Maple Hill. 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 hospitals and 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.

Maple Hill is located in Cook County.

To see how the shape of Minnesota's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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

• Cook County     (The home county of Maple Hill)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Maple Hill, with the one closest to Maple Hill listed first.
  • Chippewa City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chippewa City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chippewa City
    • Chippewa City is located in Cook County
  • Grand Marais
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Marais have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Marais
    • Grand Marais is located in Cook County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Marais <2>
  • Hovland
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hovland have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovland
    • Hovland is located in Cook County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hovland <2>
  • Lutsen
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lutsen have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutsen
    • Lutsen is located in Cook County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lutsen <2>
  • Tofte
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tofte have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tofte
    • Tofte is located in Cook County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tofte <2>
  • Grand Portage
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Portage have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Portage
    • Grand Portage is located in Cook County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Portage <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Maple Hill ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Maple Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Maple Hill, there are papers which were published within 3 miles [4.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Maple Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Maple Hill:

• Websites specific to Minnesota
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Minnesota State Archives

• Pages specific to Cook County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Minnesota
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Minnesota
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Minnesota
  • Cemeteries of Cook County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Minnesota
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Minnesota

Cemeteries Near Maple Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Maple Hill.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

• Maple Hill Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maple Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maple Hill Cemetery
• St. John's Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. John's Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John's Cemetery
• Chippewa City Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chippewa City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chippewa City Cemetery
• Poplar Grove Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Poplar Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poplar Grove Cemetery
• Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
• Old Settlers Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Settlers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Settlers Cemetery
• Lutsen Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lutsen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lutsen Cemetery
• Mineral Center Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mineral Center Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mineral Center Cemetery
• Tofte Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tofte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tofte Cemetery

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.<4>

While we didn't find Maple Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Maple Hill.

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

• Grand Marais
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Marais have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Marais
  • Grand Marais is located in Cook County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Marais <2>
• Lutsen
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lutsen have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutsen
  • Lutsen is located in Cook County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lutsen <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Maple Hill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Cook County: www.co.cook.mn.us/

The official website for State of Minnesota: https://mn.gov/