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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 Chola (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 Chola. 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.

Chola is located in Renville 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 Renville County: Bottineau, Burke, McHenry & Ward.

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

  • Renville County     (The home county of Chola)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chola, with the one closest to Chola listed first.
    • Grano
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grano have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grano
      • Grano is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
    • Mohall
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mohall have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohall
      • Mohall is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 709 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mohall <2>
    • Glenburn
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Loraine
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loraine have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loraine
      • Loraine is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Tolley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolley have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolley
      • Tolley is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tolley <2>
    • Norma
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norma
      • Norma is located in Renville County
    • Sherwood
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sherwood have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
      • Sherwood is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 223 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sherwood <2>
  • Bottineau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chola, with the one closest to Chola listed first.
    • Lansford
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lansford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lansford
      • Lansford is located in Bottineau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 240 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lansford <2>
    • Maxbass
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Antler
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antler have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antler
      • Antler is located in Bottineau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Antler <2>
    • Newburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Russell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
      • Russell is located in Bottineau County
    • Westhope
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • McHenry County
    • Deering
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deering have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deering
      • Deering is located in McHenry County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deering <2>
  • Mountrail County
    • Coulee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coulee
      • Coulee is located in Mountrail County
  • Ward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chola, with the one closest to Chola listed first.
    • Carpio
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Foxholm
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxholm
      • Foxholm is located in Ward County
    • Ruthville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthville
      • Ruthville is located in Ward County
    • Donnybrook
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Burlington
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Berthold
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Lonetree
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Des Lacs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Kenmare
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kenmare have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenmare
      • Kenmare is located in Ward County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,026 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kenmare <2>
    • Minot
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Chola ...

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 Chola.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chola, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chola.

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 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 Chola:

Cemeteries Near Chola ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chola.

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

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

  • Lansford Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lansford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lansford Cemetery
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
  • Grano Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grano Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grano Cemetery
  • Shook Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Henrys Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Mohall Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mohall Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mohall Cemetery
  • Brotherhood Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brotherhood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brotherhood Cemetery
  • Renville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Renville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Renville Cemetery
  • Nazareth Lutheran Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
  • Valla Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valla Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valla Cemetery
  • Continue List   (31 more) ...
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
    • Maxbass Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maxbass Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maxbass Cemetery
    • Trinity Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trinity Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Cemetery

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.<5>

While we didn't find Chola in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chola.

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

  • Berthold
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Burlington
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Des Lacs
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Minot
    (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 Chola. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chola.

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

The official website for Renville County: www.renvillecounty.org/

The official website for State of North Dakota: www.nd.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>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 from Point A (ie- Chola) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chola. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.6222, Longitude: -101.4907       In this case, the coordinates for Chola 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>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 Chola, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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