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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Johnson Ford. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Johnson Ford to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Johnson Ford, please Contact Us.

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 Johnson Ford (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 Johnson Ford. 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.

Name Variations for Johnson Ford ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Johnson Ford: Johnson Frd.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Johnson Ford is historic, it would have been located within present day Grant 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 Grant County: Adams, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux & Stark.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of Johnson Ford)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnson Ford, with the one closest to Johnson Ford listed first.
    • Elgin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elgin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
      • Elgin is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 583 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elgin <3>
    • Carson
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
      • Carson is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carson <3>
    • Leith
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leith have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leith
      • Leith is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
    • New Leipzig
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Leipzig have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Leipzig
      • New Leipzig is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Leipzig <3>
    • Lark
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lark have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark
      • Lark is located in Grant County
    • Raleigh
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Gertrude
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Gertrude
      • Saint Gertrude is located in Grant County
  • Hettinger County
    • Mott
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mott have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
      • Mott is located in Hettinger County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 714 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mott <3>
  • Morton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnson Ford, with the one closest to Johnson Ford listed first.
    • Almont
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Glen Ullin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Sims
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sims have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
      • Sims is located in Morton County
    • New Salem
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Salem have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Salem
      • New Salem is located in Morton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,006 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Salem <3>
    • Flasher
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flasher have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flasher
      • Flasher is located in Morton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 203 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Flasher <3>
    • Bluegrass ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluegrass
      • Bluegrass is located in Morton County
    • Hebron
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Stark County
    • Antelope
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • Antelope is located in Stark County

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

Newspapers Published in Johnson Ford ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Johnson Ford.

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

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 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 Johnson Ford:

Cemeteries Near Johnson Ford ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Johnson Ford.

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 Johnson Ford covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Old St. Joseph Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old St. Joseph Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old St. Joseph Cemetery
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery
  • Koehier Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Koehier Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Koehier Cemetery
  • Johannestal Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • The Johannestal Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Johannesthal Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johannestal Cemetery
  • Emmans Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Emmans Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emmans Cemetery
  • Assembly of God Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Bethesda United Methodist Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • American Lutheran Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Prairie View Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie View Cemetery
  • Peace Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Peace Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Peace Cemetery
  • Philadelphia Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Philadelphia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Philadelphia Cemetery
  • Continue List   (41 more) ...
    • Immanuel Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Johns Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Johns Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Cemetery

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.

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

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

  • Almont
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Glen Ullin
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Sims
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sims have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
    • Sims is located in Morton County
  • New Salem
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Salem have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Salem
    • New Salem is located in Morton County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,006 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Salem <3>
  • Hebron
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Bluegrass ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluegrass
    • Bluegrass is located in Morton County
  • Judson
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Judson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judson
    • Judson is located in Morton County
  • Antelope
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
    • Antelope is located in Stark County

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Johnson Ford, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Johnson Ford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Johnson Ford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.5809, Longitude: -101.7540       In this case, the coordinates for Johnson Ford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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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