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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 Newfolden (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 Newfolden. 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 hospitals 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.

Newfolden is located in Marshall 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 Marshall County: Beltrami, Kittson, Pennington, Polk, Roseau, Grand Forks (ND), Pembina (ND) & Walsh (ND).

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

  • Marshall County     (The home county of Newfolden)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newfolden, with the one closest to Newfolden listed first.
    • Holt
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Holt is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
    • Middle River
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Viking
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Viking is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viking
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
    • Strandquist
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Englund
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Englund is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englund
    • Argyle
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Warren
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Gatzke
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Gatzke is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatzke
    • Stephen
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Kittson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newfolden, with the one closest to Newfolden listed first.
    • Karlstad
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Deerwood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Deerwood is located in Kittson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerwood
    • Halma
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Donaldson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Donaldson is located in Kittson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donaldson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
    • Lake Bronson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pennington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newfolden, with the one closest to Newfolden listed first.
    • Thief River Falls
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Hilaire
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Saint Hilaire is located in Pennington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Hilaire
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 258 people
    • Goodridge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Goodridge is located in Pennington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
  • Polk County
    • Euclid
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Euclid is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euclid
  • Red Lake County
    • Dorothy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Dorothy is located in Red Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy
  • Roseau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newfolden, with the one closest to Newfolden listed first.
    • Strathcona
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Strathcona is located in Roseau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strathcona
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 41 people
    • Greenbush
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Newfolden ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newfolden.

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

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

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

  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Augustana Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Westaker Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Bjorsness Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Sorenson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Folden Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Opdahl Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Gaarde Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Spruce Valley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Bethania Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Bethesda Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (112 more) ...
    • Sandridge Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Norwegian Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Wikstrom Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)

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

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

  • Holt
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Holt is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holt
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
  • Viking
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Viking is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viking
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
  • Foldahl
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Foldahl is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foldahl
  • Englund
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Englund is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englund
  • Pelan
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Pelan is located in Kittson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelan
  • Argyle
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Warren
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Angus
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Stephen
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Newfolden ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newfolden.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Newfolden, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Newfolden.

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 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 Newfolden:

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 Newfolden, 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' (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- Newfolden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.