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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 Trotters (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 Trotters. 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 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 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.

Trotters is located in Golden Valley 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 Golden Valley County: Fallon (MT), Wibaux (MT), Billings, McKenzie & Slope.

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

  • Golden Valley County     (The home county of Trotters)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trotters, with the one closest to Trotters listed first.
    • Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach
      • Beach is located in Golden Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,026 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beach <1>
    • Sentinel Butte
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sentinel Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sentinel Butte
      • Sentinel Butte is located in Golden Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sentinel Butte <1>
  • Richland County (MT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trotters, with the one closest to Trotters listed first.
    • Knife River
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knife River have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River
      • Knife River is located in Richland County (MT)
    • Savage
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Crane
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Piche
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piche
      • Piche is located in Richland County (MT)
    • Sidney
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Sidney is located in Richland County (MT)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,297 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sidney <1>
  • Wibaux County (MT)
    • Wibaux
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wibaux have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wibaux
      • Wibaux is located in Wibaux County (MT)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 575 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wibaux <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Trotters ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trotters.

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

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

  • South Side Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Side Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sunny Side Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Blue Mtn. Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blue Mtn. Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Blue Mtn. Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Blue Mtn. Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<5> to the south of Wibaux (MT).
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20775 <3>
  • Been Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Poker Jim Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poker Jim Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Poker Jim Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plain View Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plain View Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plain View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Crane Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Wibaux County Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Newlon Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Richland Memorial Park
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • St. Michaels Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • 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.
    • Pioneer Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Red Wing Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Wing Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Wing Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Trotters ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trotters.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trotters, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trotters.

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 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 Trotters:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Trotters. 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>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>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Trotters) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Trotters. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.3231, Longitude: -103.9183       In this case, the coordinates for Trotters have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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