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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 New Duluth (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 New Duluth. 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.

New Duluth is located in Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis County: Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake & Douglas (WI).

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

  • Saint Louis County     (The home county of New Duluth)
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Duluth, with the one closest to New Duluth listed first.
    • Gary
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Gary is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
    • Proctor
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Proctor is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,006 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Proctor <1>
    • Oneota
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Oneota is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneota
    • Adolph
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Hermantown
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Duluth
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Arnold
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Arnold is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
    • Twig
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Twig is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twig
    • Saginaw
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Saginaw is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
    • Clifton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Brookston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Alborn
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Carlton County
  • Lake County
  • Pine County
  • Douglas County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Duluth, with the one closest to New Duluth listed first.
    • Oliver
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Oliver is located in Douglas County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 416 people
    • Superior Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Superior Village is located in Douglas County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 713 people
    • Saunders
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Superior
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Dedham
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • South Range
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Poplar
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Hawthorne
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Bennett
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Bennett is located in Douglas County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
    • Cloverland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Cloverland is located in Douglas County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverland
    • Moose Junction
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Lake Nebagamon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Lake Nebagamon is located in Douglas County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Nebagamon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,064 people

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

Cemeteries Near New Duluth ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Duluth.

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 New Duluth - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from New Duluth, with the one closest to New Duluth 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.<4>

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

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

  • Fond du Lac
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Fond du Lac is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fond du Lac
  • Pokegama
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Pokegama is located in Douglas County (WI)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pokegama
  • Smithville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Smithville is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithville
  • West Duluth
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • West Duluth is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Duluth
  • Boylston
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Boylston is located in Douglas County (WI)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boylston
  • South Superior
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • South Superior is located in Douglas County (WI)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Superior
  • Oneota
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Oneota is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneota
  • Superior
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Thomson
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Thomson is located in Carlton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomson
    • Estimated population in 2014: 158 people
  • Dedham
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Carlton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Itasca
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Itasca is located in Douglas County (WI)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Itasca
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in New Duluth ...

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 114 newspapers that have been published in the area around New Duluth.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Duluth, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Duluth.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 New Duluth:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Duluth) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 New Duluth, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.