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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 Deering (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 Deering. 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 doctors and 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.

Deering is located in McHenry 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 McHenry County: Bottineau, McLean, Pierce, Renville, Sheridan & Ward.

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

  • McHenry County     (The home county of Deering)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deering, with the one closest to Deering listed first.
    • Rising ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Rising is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising
    • Granville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Genoa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Genoa is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
    • Upham
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Bantry
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Velva
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Velva is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Velva
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,185 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Velva <1>
    • Voltaire
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Karlsruhe
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Towner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Bergen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bergen is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
  • Bottineau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deering, with the one closest to Deering listed first.
    • Russell
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Russell is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
    • Lansford
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Maxbass
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Newburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Kramer
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • White ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • White is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
  • Renville County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deering, with the one closest to Deering listed first.
    • Glenburn
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Grano
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Grano is located in Renville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grano
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
  • Ward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deering, with the one closest to Deering listed first.
    • Surrey
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Ruthville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Ruthville is located in Ward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthville
    • Minot
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Burlington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sawyer
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Foxholm
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Foxholm is located in Ward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxholm
    • Des Lacs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Lonetree
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Carpio
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Deering ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deering.

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

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

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

  • Deering Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Rising Lutheran Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Saline Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Norwich Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Little Deep Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Granville Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hebrew Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • First Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Lutheran Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the First Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Minot.
    • The First Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hauge Cemetery
    • Synod Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340915 <2>
  • Rosehill Memorial Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosehill Memorial Cemetery
    • The Rosehill Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Rosehill Cemetery
  • Continue List   (36 more) ...
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Thompson Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Fredericks Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 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.<3>

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

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

  • Granville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Minot
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Logan
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Logan is located in Ward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
  • Burlington
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Denbigh
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Denbigh is located in McHenry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Des Lacs
    (25 miles [40.2 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 Deering. See our List of 1890's Communities around Deering.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Deering ...

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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Deering.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Deering. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Deering and those printed in the larger area surrounding Deering.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Deering.

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 helpful 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 Deering:

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>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 Deering, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Deering) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.