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 Epping (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 Epping. 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.
Epping is located in Williams 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 Williams County: Roosevelt (MT), Sheridan (MT), Burke, Divide, McKenzie & Mountrail.
Below are the counties that are near Epping. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Epping:
- Williams County (The home county of Epping)
- The following are listed by their distance from Epping, with the one closest to Epping listed first.
- Wheelock
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Wheelock is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelock
- Springbrook
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Springbrook is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbrook
- Population from the 2020 Census: 41 people
- Ray
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Williston
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Jessie
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Lake Jessie is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Jessie
- Tioga
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Alamo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Corinth
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Corinth is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth
- Appam
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Appam is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appam
- Bonetraill
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Bonetraill is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonetraill
- Wildrose
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Zahl
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Trenton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- McKenzie County
- Banks ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Banks is located in McKenzie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks
- Mountrail County
- White Earth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Epping, see our County-by-County Page for Epping.
Cemeteries Near Epping ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Epping.
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 Epping - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Epping covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Epping, with the one closest to Epping listed first.
- Epping Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Wheelock Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Soine Family Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soine Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Soine Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southwest of Ray.
- The Soine Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2362948 <3>
- Sunset Rest Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bethany Valley Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- St. Michaels Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- East Fork Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hillside Memory Gardens
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- German Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Faith Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Riverview Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (45 more) ...
- Hauges Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hauges Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hauges Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the southeast of Williston.
- The Hauges Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hauge Cemetery
- Ploom Creek Hauges Norwegian Lutheran Chuch Cemetery
- Ploom Creek Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2251842 <3>
- Temple Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Garden Valley Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
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>
While we didn't find Epping in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Epping.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Epping, with the one closest to Epping listed first.
- Wheelock
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Wheelock is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelock
- Springbrook
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Springbrook is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbrook
- Population from the 2020 Census: 41 people
- Ray
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Avoca
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Avoca is located in Williams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avoca
- Williston
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Trenton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- White Earth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Epping. See our List of 1890's Communities around Epping.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Epping ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Epping.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Epping. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Epping and those printed in the larger area surrounding Epping.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2> of Epping.
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 Epping:
- Websites specific to North Dakota
- Pages specific to Williams County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- McKenzie County
- Mountrail County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for North Dakota
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Epping) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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 Epping, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |