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 Calspur (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 Calspur. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Calspur is located in Grand Forks 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 Grand Forks County: Polk (MN), Nelson, Steele, Traill & Walsh.
Below are the counties that are near Calspur. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Calspur:
- Grand Forks County (The home county of Calspur)
- The following are listed by their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Grand Forks
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Kelly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Kelly is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly
- Manvel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Thompson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Emerado
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Mekinock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Holmes
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Holmes is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes
- Reynolds
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Arvilla
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Gilby
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Johnstown
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Johnstown is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
- Larimore
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Traill County
- The following are listed by their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Buxton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Hatton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cummings
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Walsh County
- The following are listed by their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Ardoch
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Warsaw
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Warsaw is located in Walsh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warsaw
- Forest River
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Minto
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Marshall County (MN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Alvarado
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Alvarado is located in Marshall County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvarado
- Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
- Oslo
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Oslo is located in Marshall County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oslo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 323 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oslo <1>
- Warren
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Big Woods
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Big Woods is located in Marshall County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Woods
- Argyle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Polk County (MN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- East Grand Forks
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Mallory
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mallory is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallory
- Fisher
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fisher is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
- Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
- Euclid
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Euclid is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euclid
- Shirley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Shirley is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Crookston
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Climax
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Climax is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 261 people
- Nielsville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Nielsville is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nielsville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
- Red Lake County (MN)
- Dorothy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Dorothy is located in Red Lake County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Calspur, see our County-by-County Page for Calspur.
Cemeteries Near Calspur ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Calspur.
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 Calspur - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Calspur covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Calvary Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Sunset Memorial Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- South Bethany Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Resthaven Memorial Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Bethany Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Walle Lutheran Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Bygland Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Nesbit Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- St. James Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- St. James Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Thompson Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Continue List (87 more) ...
- East Walle Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- St. Timothy Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Holy Trinity Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
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.<2>
While we didn't find Calspur in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Calspur.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Calspur, with the one closest to Calspur listed first.
- Grand Forks
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- East Grand Forks
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Merrifield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Merrifield is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrifield
- Kelly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Kelly is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly
- Ojata ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Ojata is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojata
- Mallory
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mallory is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallory
- Thompson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Manvel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Tabor
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Tabor is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tabor
- Mekinock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Fisher
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fisher is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
- Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
- Holmes
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Holmes is located in Grand Forks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Freeman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Freeman is located in Polk County (MN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
- Reynolds
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Arvilla
(19 miles [30.6 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 Calspur. See our List of 1890's Communities around Calspur.
Newspapers Published in Calspur ...
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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Calspur.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Calspur, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Calspur.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Calspur:
- Websites specific to North Dakota
- Pages specific to Grand Forks County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Traill County
- Walsh County
- Marshall County
- Polk County
- Red Lake County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for North Dakota
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> | 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 Calspur, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Calspur) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |