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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 Fredonia (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 Fredonia. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Fredonia is located in Logan 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 Logan County: Emmons, Kidder, LaMoure, McIntosh & Stutsman.

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

  • Logan County     (The home county of Fredonia)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fredonia, with the one closest to Fredonia listed first.
    • Lehr
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Gackle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Dickey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fredonia, with the one closest to Fredonia listed first.
    • Merricourt
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Merricourt is located in Dickey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merricourt
    • Monango
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Monango is located in Dickey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monango
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
    • Forbes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • LaMoure County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fredonia, with the one closest to Fredonia listed first.
    • Kulm
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Kulm is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kulm
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kulm <1>
    • Jud
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jud is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jud
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jud <1>
    • Edgeley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Alfred
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Alfred is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfred
    • Nortonville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Nortonville is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nortonville
    • Berlin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fredonia, with the one closest to Fredonia listed first.
    • Wishek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Ashley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Stutsman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fredonia, with the one closest to Fredonia listed first.
    • Streeter
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Millarton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Millarton is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millarton
  • McPherson County (SD)
    • Spring Creek Colony
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Spring Creek Colony is located in McPherson County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek Colony
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 268 people

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

Cemeteries Near Fredonia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fredonia.

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

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

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

  • Nazareth Parish Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Pamona Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Fredonia Lutheran Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredonia Lutheran Cemetery
    • The Fredonia Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Martin Luther Lutheran Cemetery
  • St. Johannes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Eszlinger Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Wolff Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • American Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Assembly of God Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Kulm Congregational Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Lautt Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tabor Congregation Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (82 more) ...

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 Fredonia in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fredonia.

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

  • Merricourt
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Merricourt is located in Dickey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merricourt
  • Medberry
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Medberry is located in LaMoure County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medberry
  • Ashley
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Monango
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Monango is located in Dickey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monango
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
  • Sharlow
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sharlow is located in Stutsman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow
  • Boynton
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Boynton is located in Dickey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boynton
  • Lowell
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Lowell is located in McIntosh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
  • Berlin
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Fredonia. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fredonia.

Newspapers Published in Fredonia ...

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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fredonia.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fredonia, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fredonia.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Fredonia:

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