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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 Crosby (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 Crosby. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Crosby is located in Divide County and is the County Seat.

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 Divide County: Sheridan (MT), Burke & Williams.

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

  • Divide County     (The home county of Crosby)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crosby, with the one closest to Crosby listed first.
    • Ambrose
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ambrose have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ambrose
      • Ambrose is located in Divide County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 25 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ambrose <2>
    • Noonan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Fortuna
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Stady ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stady
      • Stady is located in Divide County
    • Alkabo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alkabo
      • Alkabo is located in Divide County
  • Burke County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crosby, with the one closest to Crosby listed first.
    • Larson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Larson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larson
      • Larson is located in Burke County
    • Columbus
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Columbus have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
      • Columbus is located in Burke County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 139 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Columbus <2>
  • Williams County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crosby, with the one closest to Crosby listed first.
    • Corinth
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth
      • Corinth is located in Williams County
    • Wildrose
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Hamlet
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlet
      • Hamlet is located in Williams County
    • Alamo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • McGregor
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Appam
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appam
      • Appam is located in Williams County
    • Zahl
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Crosby ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crosby.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Crosby. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Crosby and those printed in the larger area surrounding Crosby.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Crosby.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Crosby:

Cemeteries Near Crosby ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crosby.

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

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

  • Concordia Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Concordia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Concordia Cemetery
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patricks Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patricks Cemetery
  • Ambrose Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ambrose Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ambrose Cemetery
  • Bethel & St. John's Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Coalfield Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Coalfield Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Noonan.
    • The Coalfield Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Wilson Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coalfield Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2462230 <4>
  • St. Cunigundis Catholic Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Herman Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Skabo Church Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Prairie Chapel Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Chapel Cemetery
  • Torquay Community Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • East Opdal Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Opdal Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Opdal Cemetery
  • East Opdal Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the East Opdal Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the East Opdal Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southwest of Corinth.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Opdal Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #101875 <4>
  • Continue List   (37 more) ...

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

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

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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Crosby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Crosby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.9131, Longitude: -103.2951    
<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.




 

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