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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 Johnsons Corner (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 Johnsons Corner. 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 Johnsons Corner ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Johnsons Corner: Johnsons Cor. (or less commonly used: Johnsons Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Johnsons Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Johnsons Corner may originally have been Johnson's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Johnsons Corner might be written as Johnson Corner.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Johnsons Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Johnsons Corner.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.

Johnsons Corner is located in McKenzie 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 McKenzie County: Richland (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Mountrail & Williams.

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

  • McKenzie County     (The home county of Johnsons Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnsons Corner, with the one closest to Johnsons Corner listed first.
    • Keene
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Schafer
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Schafer is located in McKenzie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schafer
    • Mandaree
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Watford City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Banks ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Banks is located in McKenzie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks
    • Four Bears Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Four Bears Village is located in McKenzie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Bears Village
    • Arnegard
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Rawson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Rawson is located in McKenzie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawson
  • Dunn County
    • Independance ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Independance is located in Dunn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independance
  • McLean County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnsons Corner, with the one closest to Johnsons Corner listed first.
    • Charging Eagle ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Charging Eagle is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charging Eagle
    • Shell Creek ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Shell Creek is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Creek
  • Mountrail County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnsons Corner, with the one closest to Johnsons Corner listed first.
    • Sanish
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Sanish is located in Mountrail County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanish
    • New Town
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Van Hook
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Van Hook is located in Mountrail County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Hook
  • Williams County
    • Lake Jessie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake Jessie is located in Williams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Jessie

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

Cemeteries Near Johnsons Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Johnsons Corner.

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 Johnsons Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Johnsons Corner Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Union Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Silent City Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Clear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Clear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Keene.
    • The Clear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Clear Creek Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2201205 <3>
  • West Prairie Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Redeemer Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Schafer Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Good Hope Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Goodbird Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Tepee Buttes Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Snowbird Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Antelope Valley Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)

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.<5>

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

  • Oakdale
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Oakdale is located in Dunn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale

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

Newspapers Published in Johnsons Corner ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Johnsons Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Johnsons Corner, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Johnsons Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Johnsons Corner:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Johnsons Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<5>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 Johnsons Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.