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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 Griffin (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 Griffin. 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.

Griffin is located in Bowman County.

To see how the shape of North Dakota's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bowman County: Fallon (MT), Adams, Slope & Harding (SD).

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

  • Bowman County     (The home county of Griffin)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Griffin, with the one closest to Griffin listed first.
    • Rhame
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rhame have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhame
      • Rhame is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rhame <2>
    • Bowman
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman
      • Bowman is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
      • Former names for Bowman:
      • Eden
      • Lowden
      • Twin Buttes
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bowman <2>
    • Scranton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Gascoyne
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gascoyne have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gascoyne
      • Gascoyne is located in Bowman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14 people
    • Haley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Adams County
    • Reeder
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Slope County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Griffin, with the one closest to Griffin listed first.
    • Marmarth
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marmarth have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marmarth
      • Marmarth is located in Slope County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marmarth <2>
    • Amidon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amidon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amidon
      • Amidon is located in Slope County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amidon <2>
  • Harding County (SD)
    • Ludlow
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ludlow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
      • Ludlow is located in Harding County (SD)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ludlow <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Griffin ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Griffin.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Griffin, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Griffin.

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 Griffin:

Cemeteries Near Griffin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Griffin.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Bowman Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Charles Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Charles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Charles Cemetery
  • Tuttle Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Paul Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Paul Cemetery
  • Grand River Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand River Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand River Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
  • Scranton Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scranton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scranton Cemetery
  • Lebanon Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lebanon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lebanon Cemetery
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Pierce Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pierce Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pierce Cemetery
  • Cedar Lutheran Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cedar Lutheran Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the southwest of Scranton.
    • The Cedar Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cedar Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Lutheran Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #101803 <4>
  • Haley Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haley Cemetery
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Carroll Twp. Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • DeSart Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the DeSart Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the northeast of New England.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the DeSart Cemetery
    • Fertile Prairie Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fertile Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fertile Prairie Cemetery

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Griffin. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of North Dakota: www.nd.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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- Griffin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Griffin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2158, Longitude: -103.5407       In this case, the coordinates for Griffin have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.




 

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