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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 Gardena (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 Gardena. 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.

Gardena is located in Bottineau 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 Bottineau County: McHenry, Pierce & Rolette.

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

  • Bottineau County     (The home county of Gardena)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gardena, with the one closest to Gardena listed first.
    • White ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • White is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
    • Omemee ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Omemee is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omemee
    • Bottineau
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Kramer
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Willow City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Overly
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Overly is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overly
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
    • Souris
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Newburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Russell
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Russell is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
    • Roth
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Roth is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roth
    • Landa
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Landa is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
    • Westhope
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Maxbass
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • McHenry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gardena, with the one closest to Gardena listed first.
    • Upham
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Bantry
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Towner
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Berwick
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Berwick is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick
  • Pierce County
    • Barton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Barton is located in Pierce County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
  • Rolette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gardena, with the one closest to Gardena listed first.
    • Dunseith
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • San Haven
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • San Haven is located in Rolette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Haven
    • East Dunseith
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • East Dunseith is located in Rolette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dunseith
    • Kelvin
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Kelvin is located in Rolette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelvin
    • Rolette
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Shell Valley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Shell Valley is located in Rolette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Valley

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

Cemeteries Near Gardena ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gardena.

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

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

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

  • Zion Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Evangelical Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Kramer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Melankton Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Mt. St. Mark Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Tasco Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Bloomfield Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Notre Dame Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Tarus Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Little Fargo Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Bantry Union Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (32 more) ...
    • Fredericks Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Willow Creek Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Mountain View Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)

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

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

  • Omemee ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Omemee is located in Bottineau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omemee
  • Bottineau
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Willow City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Barton
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Barton is located in Pierce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton
  • Dunseith
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Denbigh
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Denbigh is located in McHenry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denbigh
  • Berwick
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Berwick is located in McHenry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwick

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

Newspapers Published in Gardena ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gardena.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gardena, 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 Gardena.

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 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 Gardena:

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