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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 Dana (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 Dana. 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 and hospitals 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.

Dana is located in Emmons 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 Emmons County: Burleigh, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Morton, Sioux & Campbell (SD).

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

  • Emmons County     (The home county of Dana)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dana, with the one closest to Dana listed first.
    • Braddock
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Braddock have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braddock
      • Braddock is located in Emmons County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Braddock <2>
    • Hazelton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hazelton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelton
      • Hazelton is located in Emmons County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 207 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hazelton <2>
    • Livona
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Livona have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livona
      • Livona is located in Emmons County
    • Linton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Linton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linton
      • Linton is located in Emmons County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 964 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Linton <2>
    • Strasburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strasburg have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strasburg
      • Strasburg is located in Emmons County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 355 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Strasburg <2>
  • Burleigh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dana, with the one closest to Dana listed first.
    • Moffit
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Sterling
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Driscoll
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • McKenzie
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Menoken
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Apple Valley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
      • Apple Valley is located in Burleigh County
    • Lincoln
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincoln have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
      • Lincoln is located in Burleigh County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,873 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lincoln <2>
    • Bismarck
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bismarck have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bismarck
      • Bismarck is located in Burleigh County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 74,018 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bismarck <2>
  • Kidder County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dana, with the one closest to Dana listed first.
    • Steele
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Dawson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dawson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawson
      • Dawson is located in Kidder County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dawson <2>
  • Logan County
    • Napoleon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Napoleon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napoleon
      • Napoleon is located in Logan County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 760 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Napoleon <2>
  • Morton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dana, with the one closest to Dana listed first.
    • Fort Rice
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Rice
      • Fort Rice is located in Morton County
    • Huff
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huff
      • Huff is located in Morton County
  • Sioux County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dana, with the one closest to Dana listed first.
    • Cannon Ball
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cannon Ball have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Ball
      • Cannon Ball is located in Sioux County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cannon Ball <2>
    • Solen
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Solen have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solen
      • Solen is located in Sioux County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Solen <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Dana ...

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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dana.

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

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 Dana:

Cemeteries Near Dana ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dana.

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

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

  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Paul Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul Cemetery
  • Braddock Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Braddock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Braddock Cemetery
  • Moffit Community Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Katherines Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Katherines Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Katherines Cemetery
  • Maria Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maria Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maria Cemetery
  • Parzychowski Family Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Gimble Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Temvik Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Temvik Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Temvik Cemetery
  • Tell Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tell Cemetery
  • Merkle Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Sand Creek Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sand Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Creek Cemetery
  • Continue List   (35 more) ...
    • Bethlehem Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethlehem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethlehem Cemetery
    • Ft. Rice Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Rice Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Rice Cemetery
    • Ft. Rice Military Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Rice Military Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Rice Military 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 Dana in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dana.

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

  • Livona
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Livona have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livona
    • Livona is located in Emmons County
  • Fort Rice
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Rice
    • Fort Rice is located in Morton County
  • Sterling
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • McKenzie
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Driscoll
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Menoken
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Napoleon
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Napoleon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napoleon
    • Napoleon is located in Logan County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 760 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Napoleon <2>
  • Steele
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Bismarck
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bismarck have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bismarck
    • Bismarck is located in Burleigh County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 74,018 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bismarck <2>

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dana. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dana) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dana. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.5767, Longitude: -100.2337       In this case, the coordinates for Dana 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 Dana, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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