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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 Cuba (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 Cuba. 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 doctors and 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.

Cuba is located in Barnes 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 Barnes County: Cass, Griggs, LaMoure, Ransom, Steele & Stutsman.

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

  • Barnes County     (The home county of Cuba)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Fingal
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Oriska
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Valley City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • North Valley City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • North Valley City is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Valley City
    • Nome
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Kathryn
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sanborn
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Litchville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Ashtabula ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Ashtabula is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashtabula
    • Rogers
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Eckelson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Pillsbury
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Pillsbury is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillsbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11 people
    • Sibley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Sibley is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sibley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Tower City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Alice
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Alice is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
    • Buffalo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Magnolia
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Magnolia is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
    • Ayr
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Chaffee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Absaraka
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Wheatland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Nolan ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Nolan is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolan
    • Page
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Erie
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • LaMoure County
    • Marion
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Ransom County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cuba, with the one closest to Cuba listed first.
    • Enderlin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort Ransom
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Sheldon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Anselm
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Anselm is located in Ransom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anselm
    • Lisbon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Elliott
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Elliott is located in Ransom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 25 people
  • Steele County
    • Luverne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Stutsman County

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

Cemeteries Near Cuba ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cuba.

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

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

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

  • Prairie Rest Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Hill Side Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Holy Trinity Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Holy Trinity Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Memory Gardens Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • St. Bernards Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Sheyenne Valley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Oriska Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • St. Catherines Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Ringsaker Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (56 more) ...
    • Hillside Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hillside Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Valley City.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102029 <2>
    • Sunnyside Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Pauls Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Cuba had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Fingal
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Daily
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Daily is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daily
  • Oriska
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Valley City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Lucca
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Lucca is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucca
  • Tower City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Berea
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Berea is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berea
  • Hastings
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Hastings is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hastings
  • Buffalo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Sanborn
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Fort Ransom
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Magnolia
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Magnolia is located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Ashtabula ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Ashtabula is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashtabula
    • Sheldon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Ayr
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Cuba ...

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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cuba.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cuba, 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 Cuba.

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 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 Cuba:

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 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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cuba) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Cuba, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.