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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 Denbigh (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 Denbigh. 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.

Denbigh 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 Denbigh. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Denbigh:

  • McHenry County     (The home county of Denbigh)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Denbigh, with the one closest to Denbigh listed first.
    • Towner
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Bantry
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Granville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Berwick
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Berwick is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick
    • Karlsruhe
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Rising ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Rising is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising
    • Upham
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Genoa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Genoa is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
    • Deering
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Bergen
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Bergen is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
    • Guthrie
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Guthrie is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guthrie
    • Velva
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
  • Bottineau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Denbigh, with the one closest to Denbigh listed first.
    • Willow City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Gardena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Gardena is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
    • Kramer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • White ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • White is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
    • Russell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Russell is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
    • Omemee ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Omemee is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omemee
  • Pierce County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Denbigh, with the one closest to Denbigh listed first.
    • Barton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Barton is located in Pierce County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
    • Orrin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Balta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Rugby
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Ward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Denbigh, with the one closest to Denbigh listed first.
    • Surrey
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Sawyer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Denbigh ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Denbigh.

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

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

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

  • Thompson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Mouse River Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Granville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Bantry Union Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • St. John Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Stnenkjer Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Verendrye Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Berwick Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Saline Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (34 more) ...
    • Rising Lutheran Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Westgaard Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Anselm Catholic Church of Fulda Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Anselm Catholic Church of Fulda Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Anselm Catholic Church of Fulda Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the southwest of Rugby.
      • The St. Anselm Catholic Church of Fulda Cemetery has also been known as:
      • St. Anselms Friedhoff
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254966 <2>

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, Denbigh had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Granville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Berwick
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Berwick is located in McHenry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick
  • Barton
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Barton is located in Pierce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
  • Willow City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Rugby
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Logan
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Logan is located in Ward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
  • Omemee ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Omemee is located in Bottineau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omemee

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Denbigh ...

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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Denbigh.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Denbigh. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Denbigh and those printed in the larger area surrounding Denbigh.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3> of Denbigh.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Denbigh:

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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Denbigh) 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 Denbigh, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.