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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 Wogansport (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 Wogansport. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Wogansport is located in Burleigh 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 Burleigh County: Emmons, Kidder, McLean, Morton, Oliver & Sheridan.

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

  • Burleigh County     (The home county of Wogansport)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wogansport, with the one closest to Wogansport listed first.
    • Double Ditch Indian Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Bismarck
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Regan
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Apple Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Apple Valley is located in Burleigh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
    • Lincoln
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Menoken
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • McKenzie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Wing
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Wing is located in Burleigh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wing
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wing <1>
  • McLean County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wogansport, with the one closest to Wogansport listed first.
    • Wilton
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Washburn
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Mercer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wogansport, with the one closest to Wogansport listed first.
    • Knife River Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Knife River Village is located in Mercer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River Village
    • Stanton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Morton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wogansport, with the one closest to Wogansport listed first.
    • Mandan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Twin City Estates
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Twin City Estates is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin City Estates
    • Lyons
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • On-a-Slant Village ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • On-a-Slant Village is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for On-a-Slant Village
    • Sweet Briar
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Sweet Briar is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar
    • Saint Anthony
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • New Salem
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Huff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Huff is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huff
  • Oliver County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wogansport, with the one closest to Wogansport listed first.
    • Sanger
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Sanger is located in Oliver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
    • Hensler
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Hensler is located in Oliver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensler
    • Center
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Hannover
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Hannover is located in Oliver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannover

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

Cemeteries Near Wogansport ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wogansport.

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

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

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

  • Rosehill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Harmon Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Baldwin Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Yucca Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • St. Nicholas Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Sanger Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Wing Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Union Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Gaines Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (38 more) ...
    • Mission Free Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Sunset Memorial Garden
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Fairview Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)

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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Wogansport had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Sanger
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Sanger is located in Oliver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
  • Mandan
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Bismarck
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Hensler
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Hensler is located in Oliver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensler
  • Sweet Briar
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sweet Briar is located in Morton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar
  • Washburn
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Menoken
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Judson
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Judson is located in Morton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judson
  • McKenzie
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hannover
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Hannover is located in Oliver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannover
  • New Salem
    (28 miles [45.1 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 Wogansport. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wogansport.

Newspapers Published in Wogansport ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wogansport.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wogansport, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wogansport.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Wogansport:

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 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.
<3>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 Wogansport, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Wogansport) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.