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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 Mohall (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 Mohall. 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 doctors and 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.

Mohall is located in Renville County and is the County Seat.

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 Renville County: Bottineau, Burke, McHenry & Ward.

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

  • Renville County     (The home county of Mohall)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mohall, with the one closest to Mohall listed first.
    • Loraine
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loraine have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loraine
      • Loraine is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Grano
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grano have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grano
      • Grano is located in Renville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
    • Sherwood
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Tolley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Glenburn
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Norma
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Bottineau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mohall, with the one closest to Mohall listed first.
    • Lansford
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lansford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lansford
      • Lansford is located in Bottineau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 240 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lansford <2>
    • Maxbass
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Antler
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antler have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antler
      • Antler is located in Bottineau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Antler <2>
    • Westhope
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Newburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Landa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Landa have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landa
      • Landa is located in Bottineau County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
    • Russell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Mountrail County
  • Ward County

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

Cemeteries Near Mohall ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mohall.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Mohall ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mohall.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Mohall. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Mohall and those printed in the larger area surrounding Mohall.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> of Mohall.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Mohall:

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- Mohall) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mohall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7666, Longitude: -101.5101    
<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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.