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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 Calio (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 Calio. 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 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.

Calio is located in Cavalier County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cavalier County: Pembina, Ramsey, Towner & Walsh.

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

  • Cavalier County     (The home county of Calio)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calio, with the one closest to Calio listed first.
    • Munich
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Munich is located in Cavalier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munich
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Alsen
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Calvin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Loma
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Loma is located in Cavalier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
    • Sarles
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Wales
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Nekoma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Dresden
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Dresden is located in Cavalier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresden
    • Hannah
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Langdon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Benson County
    • Niles
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Niles is located in Benson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
  • Ramsey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calio, with the one closest to Calio listed first.
    • Saint Joe
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Saint Joe is located in Ramsey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Joe
    • Starkweather
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Hampden
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Garske
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Garske is located in Ramsey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garske
    • Webster
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Edmore
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Churchs Ferry
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Penn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Rolette County
  • Towner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calio, with the one closest to Calio listed first.
    • Egeland
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Cando
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Rocklake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Maza
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Maza is located in Towner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maza
    • Bisbee
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Perth
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Hansboro
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Calio ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Calio.

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

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

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

  • St. Bonafice Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • South Salem Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Union Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Union Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Egeland.
    • The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Egeland Cemetery
    • Egeland Union Cemetery
  • East Salem Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Clyde Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Evangelical Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Starweather Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Storlie Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (39 more) ...
    • Cando Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • IOOF Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Brumbaugh Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)

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

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

  • Starkweather
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Cando
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Bisbee
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Perth
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Hannah
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Churchs Ferry
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Langdon
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Penn
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Calio ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Calio.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Calio. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Calio and those printed in the larger area surrounding Calio.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Calio.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Calio:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Calio) 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 Calio, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.