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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 Hoffmanville (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 Hoffmanville. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Hoffmanville is located in Richland County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Richland County: Dawson, McCone, Roosevelt, Wibaux & McKenzie (ND).

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

  • Richland County     (The home county of Hoffmanville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hoffmanville, with the one closest to Hoffmanville listed first.
    • Knife River
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knife River have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River
      • Knife River is located in Richland County
    • Savage
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Crane
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Piche
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piche
      • Piche is located in Richland County
    • Sidney
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
      • Fox Lake is located in Richland County
    • Lambert
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Enid
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
      • Enid is located in Richland County
    • Fairview
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Fairview is located in Richland County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 882 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairview <2>
  • Dawson County
  • McKenzie County (ND)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hoffmanville, with the one closest to Hoffmanville listed first.
    • Harding
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harding. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harding
      • Harding is located in McKenzie County (ND)
    • Cartwright
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Dore
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dore
      • Dore is located in McKenzie County (ND)

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

Cemeteries Near Hoffmanville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hoffmanville.

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 Hoffmanville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Riverview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Crane Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crane Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crane Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Crane.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20835 <4>
  • Newlon Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Newlon Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Newlon Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<5> to the northeast of Sidney.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21020 <4>
  • Richland Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richland Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Richland Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the northeast of Sidney.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21064 <4>
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sidney Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Grand View Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand View Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sunny Side Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Brorson Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Community Memorial Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Theresa Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Been Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Been Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Been Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<5> to the south of Wibaux.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20759 <4>
    • Klempel Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Klempel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Klempel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • South Side Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Side Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Hoffmanville ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hoffmanville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hoffmanville, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hoffmanville.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Hoffmanville:

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

The official website for Richland County: www.richland.org/

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hoffmanville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hoffmanville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5108, Longitude: -104.3024       In this case, the coordinates for Hoffmanville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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