RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of North Dakota >> Bowman County >> Buffalo Springs >> Genealogy HelperIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
North Dakota

The Commemorative Quarter for North Dakota





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 Buffalo Springs (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 Buffalo Springs. 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.

Name Variations for Buffalo Springs ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Buffalo Springs: Buffalo Spgs. (or less commonly used: Buffalo Spngs. or Buffalo Sprngs.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Buffalo Springs is located in Bowman County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bowman County: Fallon (MT), Adams, Slope & Harding (SD).

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

  • Bowman County     (The home county of Buffalo Springs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Buffalo Springs, with the one closest to Buffalo Springs listed first.
    • Scranton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Bowman
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman
      • Bowman is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
      • Former names for Bowman:
      • Eden
      • Lowden
      • Twin Buttes
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bowman <1>
    • Gascoyne
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gascoyne have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gascoyne
      • Gascoyne is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14 people
    • Haley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Rhame
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rhame have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhame
      • Rhame is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rhame <1>
  • Adams County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Buffalo Springs, with the one closest to Buffalo Springs listed first.
    • Reeder
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Bucyrus
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucyrus have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucyrus
      • Bucyrus is located in Adams County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
  • Hettinger County
    • New England
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Slope County
    • Amidon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amidon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amidon
      • Amidon is located in Slope County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amidon <1>
  • Harding County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Buffalo Springs, with the one closest to Buffalo Springs listed first.
    • Ludlow
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ludlow have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
      • Ludlow is located in Harding County (SD)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ludlow <1>
    • Ralph
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Buffalo Springs ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Buffalo Springs.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Buffalo Springs. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Buffalo Springs and those printed in the larger area surrounding Buffalo Springs.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Buffalo Springs.

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 Buffalo Springs:

Cemeteries Near Buffalo Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Buffalo Springs.

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

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

  • Scranton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scranton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scranton Cemetery
  • Bowman Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • St. Charles Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Charles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Charles Cemetery
  • Cedar Lutheran Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cedar Lutheran Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the southwest of Scranton.
    • The Cedar Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cedar Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Lutheran Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #101803 <4>
  • Whetstone Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Pierce Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pierce Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pierce Cemetery
  • Haley Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haley Cemetery
  • Rose Hill Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Haven of Rest Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Haven of Rest Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haven of Rest Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2559910 <4>
  • Grand River Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand River Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand River Cemetery
  • Carroll Twp. Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • DeSart Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the DeSart Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the northeast of New England.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the DeSart Cemetery
  • Continue List   (21 more) ...
    • Mamre Lutheran Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Lebanon Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lebanon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lebanon Cemetery
    • Wolf Butte Lutheran Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)

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

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

The official website for State of North Dakota: www.nd.gov/

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 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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Buffalo Springs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buffalo Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.1750, Longitude: -103.2349       In this case, the coordinates for Buffalo Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.




 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024