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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 Embden (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 Embden. 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.

Embden is located in Cass 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 Cass County: Clay (MN), Norman (MN), Barnes, Ransom, Richland, Steele & Traill.

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

  • Cass County     (The home county of Embden)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Embden, with the one closest to Embden listed first.
    • Chaffee
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Alice
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Alice is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
    • Magnolia
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Magnolia is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
    • Wheatland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Buffalo
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Absaraka
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Casselton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Durbin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Durbin is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durbin
    • Leonard
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Tower City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Woods
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Woods is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods
    • Ayr
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Barnes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Embden, with the one closest to Embden listed first.
    • Fingal
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Oriska
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Nome
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Kathryn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • North Valley City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • North Valley City is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Valley City
    • Valley City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Ransom County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Embden, with the one closest to Embden listed first.
    • Enderlin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Sheldon
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Anselm
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Anselm is located in Ransom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anselm
    • Lisbon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • McLeod
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Fort Ransom
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Richland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Embden, with the one closest to Embden listed first.
    • Barrie
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Barrie is located in Richland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrie
    • Walcott
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Embden ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Embden.

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

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

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

  • St. Johannes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Tabor Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • United Brethren Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Watson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Wheatland Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Leonard Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Casselton Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Leos Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Leos Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Leos Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Casselton.
    • The St. Leos Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Leo Cemetery
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (65 more) ...
    • Holy Trinity Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Enderlin City Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • SheldonCemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for SheldonCemetery
      • The SheldonCemetery has also been known as:
      • St. Marys Cemetery
      • Sheldon City Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102489 <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.<3>

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

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

  • Magnolia
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Magnolia is located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Wheatland
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Buffalo
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Casselton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Absaraka
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Coburn
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Coburn is located in Ransom County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburn
  • Leonard
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Durbin
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Durbin is located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durbin
  • Woods
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Woods is located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods
  • Tower City
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Lucca
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lucca is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucca
  • Sheldon
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Ayr
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Amenia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fingal
      (17 miles [27.4 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 Embden. See our List of 1890's Communities around Embden.

Newspapers Published in Embden ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Embden.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Embden, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Embden.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Embden:

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 Embden, 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 from Point A (ie- Embden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.