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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 Clough (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 Clough. 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 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.

Clough is located in Meade County.

To see how the shape of South Dakota's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Meade County: Butte, Haakon, Lawrence, Pennington & Ziebach.

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

  • Meade County     (The home county of Clough)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clough, with the one closest to Clough listed first.
    • Union Center
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Enning
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enning have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enning
      • Enning is located in Meade County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Enning <1>
    • Fairpoint
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairpoint have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpoint
      • Fairpoint is located in Meade County
    • Red Owl
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Owl
      • Red Owl is located in Meade County
    • White Owl
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Elm Springs
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Viewfield
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Viewfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewfield
      • Viewfield is located in Meade County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
    • Marcus
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Opal
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Mud Butte
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Butte County
    • Vale
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Clough ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clough.

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

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

  • Haydraw Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairpoint Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairpoint Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairpoint Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • White Owl Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Owl Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Owl Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plum Draw Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plum Draw Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plum Draw Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Viewfield Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Viewfield Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Viewfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Backes Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Backes Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Backes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Elk Vale Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elk Vale Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elk Vale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Vale Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vale Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<6>

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

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

  • Viewfield
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Viewfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewfield
    • Viewfield is located in Meade County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 44 people
  • Empire
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Empire have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
    • Empire is located in Butte County
  • Bend
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Bend is located in Meade County
  • Vale
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Clough ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clough.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Clough. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Clough and those printed in the larger area surrounding Clough.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> of Clough.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Clough:

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

The official website for Meade County: www.meadecounty.org/

The official website for State of South Dakota: https://www.sd.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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Clough) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clough. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5792, Longitude: -102.8046       In this case, the coordinates for Clough have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Clough, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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