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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 Petrel (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 Petrel. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Petrel is located in Adams 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 Adams County: Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Slope, Harding (SD) & Perkins (SD).

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

  • Adams County     (The home county of Petrel)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Petrel, with the one closest to Petrel listed first.
    • Haynes
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haynes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynes
      • Haynes is located in Adams County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
    • Hettinger
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Bucyrus
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucyrus have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucyrus
      • Bucyrus is located in Adams County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
  • Hettinger County
    • Mott
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mott have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
  • Corson County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Petrel, with the one closest to Petrel listed first.
    • Keldron
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Morristown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morristown have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morristown
      • Morristown is located in Corson County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morristown <2>
  • Perkins County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Petrel, with the one closest to Petrel listed first.
    • White Butte
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Butte
      • White Butte is located in Perkins County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 19 people
    • Lemmon
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemmon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemmon
      • Lemmon is located in Perkins County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,160 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemmon <2>
    • Summerville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
      • Summerville is located in Perkins County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
    • Shadehill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Lodgepole
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodgepole have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodgepole
      • Lodgepole is located in Perkins County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 35 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lodgepole <2>
    • Meadow
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Bison
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bison have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
      • Bison is located in Perkins County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bison <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Petrel ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Petrel.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Petrel, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Petrel.

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 Petrel:

Cemeteries Near Petrel ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Petrel.

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

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

  • Petrel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • North Lemmon Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Green Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Green Hill Cemetery
  • Haynes Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Stowers Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Stowers Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stowers Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102617 <4>
  • Prince of Peace Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Cedar Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Union Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Long Butte Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Long Butte Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Butte Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102127 <4>
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Norwegian Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norwegian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery
  • Hettinger Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...
    • Sein Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sein Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sein Cemetery
    • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    • Sacred Heart Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Petrel. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Petrel) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Petrel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9483, Longitude: -102.2771       In this case, the coordinates for Petrel 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.
<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.




 

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