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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 Gackle (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 Gackle. 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 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.

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

  • Logan County     (The home county of Gackle)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gackle, with the one closest to Gackle listed first.
    • Fredonia
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Lehr
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Napoleon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Kidder County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gackle, with the one closest to Gackle listed first.
    • Crystal Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Crystal Springs is located in Kidder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Springs
    • Tappen
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • LaMoure County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gackle, with the one closest to Gackle listed first.
    • Alfred
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Alfred is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfred
    • Jud
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>
    • Nortonville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Nortonville is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nortonville
    • Kulm
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>
    • Adrian
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Adrian is located in LaMoure County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adrian
    • Edgeley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Stutsman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gackle, with the one closest to Gackle listed first.
    • Streeter
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Millarton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Millarton is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millarton
    • Cleveland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Windsor
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Windsor is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
    • Medina
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Montpelier
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Frontier Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Frontier Village is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Village
    • Jamestown Junction
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jamestown Junction is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown Junction
    • Jamestown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Ypsilanti
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Parkhurst
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Parkhurst is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkhurst

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

Cemeteries Near Gackle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gackle.

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

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

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

  • Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Neudorf Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Streeter Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Saari Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • United Methodist Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • St. James Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Emanuel Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Postal Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Church of God Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Friedens Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Streeter City Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • St. Luke Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (67 more) ...
    • Finnish Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Friedenthal Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Tiede Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)

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.<2>

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

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

  • Sharlow
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Sharlow is located in Stutsman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharlow
  • Cleveland
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Windsor
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Windsor is located in Stutsman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
  • Medina
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Crystal Springs
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Crystal Springs is located in Kidder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Springs
  • Montpelier
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Adrian
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Adrian is located in LaMoure County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adrian
  • Jamestown
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Tappen
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Ypsilanti
    (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 Gackle. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gackle.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Gackle ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gackle.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Gackle. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Gackle and those printed in the larger area surrounding Gackle.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Gackle.

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 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 Gackle:

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>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 Gackle, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Gackle) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.