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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 Tioga (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 Tioga. 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 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 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.

Tioga is located in Williams 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 Williams County: Roosevelt (MT), Sheridan (MT), Burke, Divide, McKenzie & Mountrail.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Tioga ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tioga.

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

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

  • Hillside Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • United Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the United Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the United Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Eastside Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eastside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Eastside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bakken Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bakken Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bakken Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Temple Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Temple Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Temple Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • German Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the German Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the German Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • White Earth Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Earth Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Earth Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Olaf Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Olaf Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Olaf Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Beauty Valley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Lindahl Lutheran Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Kristiansand Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kristiansand Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kristiansand Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (45 more) ...
    • St. Michaels Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Michaels Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Michaels Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Sunset Rest Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Rest Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Rest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Soine Family Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)

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.<7>

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

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

  • White Earth
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Ray
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Manitou
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manitou have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manitou
    • Manitou is located in Mountrail County
  • Wheelock
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheelock have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelock
    • Wheelock is located in Williams County
  • Ross
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Stanley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Springbrook
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Tioga ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tioga.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tioga, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tioga.

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 Tioga:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Tioga. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

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>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>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.
<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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Tioga and McGregor. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<6>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- Tioga) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tioga. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.3980, Longitude: -102.9371    
<7>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 Tioga, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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