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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 Juanita (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 Juanita. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Juanita is located in Foster 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 Foster County: Eddy, Griggs, Stutsman & Wells.

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

  • Foster County     (The home county of Juanita)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • McHenry
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Grace City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Glenfield
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Melville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Melville is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
    • Barlow
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Barlow is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
    • Carrington
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Guptill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Guptill is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guptill
  • Barnes County
    • Wimbledon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Benson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • Warwick
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Tokio
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Eddy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • Brantford
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Brantford is located in Eddy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantford
    • Hamar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hamar is located in Eddy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamar
    • New Rockford
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Sheyenne
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Griggs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • Sutton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Binford
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jessie
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Cooperstown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Hannaford
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Walum
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Walum is located in Griggs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walum
  • Nelson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • Pekin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Tolna
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • McVille
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Stutsman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juanita, with the one closest to Juanita listed first.
    • Kensal
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Courtenay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Pingree
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Spiritwood Lake
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Spiritwood Lake is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spiritwood Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people

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

Cemeteries Near Juanita ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Juanita.

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

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

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

  • Grace City Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Brethren Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Glenfield Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Eastman Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Naroen Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Brantford Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Kensal Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kensal Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kensal Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Kensal.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181531 <3>
  • Mabel Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Binford Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (32 more) ...
    • St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the south of Kensal.
    • St. James Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Courtenay Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 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.<4>

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

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

  • Glenfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Melville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Melville is located in Foster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
  • Jessie
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Barlow
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Barlow is located in Foster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
  • Carrington
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • New Rockford
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Pingree
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Hannaford
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Cooperstown
    (26 miles [41.8 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 Juanita. See our List of 1890's Communities around Juanita.

Newspapers Published in Juanita ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Juanita.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Juanita, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Juanita.

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 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 Juanita:

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