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 Fisher Estates (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 Fisher Estates. 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.
Name Variations for Fisher Estates ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Fisher Estates: Fisher Ests.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Fisher Estates. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fisher Estates.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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.
Fisher Estates is located in Brown County.
To see how the shape of South 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 Brown County: Dickey (ND), Sargent (ND), Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson & Spink.
Below are the counties that are near Fisher Estates. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fisher Estates:
- Brown County (The home county of Fisher Estates)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- Gederos Estates
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Gederos Estates is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gederos Estates
- Estimated population in 2014: 212 people
- Aberdeen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Vally Development
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Prairie Wood Village Addition
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Prairie Wood Village Addition is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Wood Village Addition
- Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
- Melrose Addition
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Melrose Addition is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Addition
- Estimated population in 2014: 221 people
- Ordway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ordway is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
- Estimated population in 2014: 306 people
- Jobee Acres
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jobee Acres is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobee Acres
- Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
- Westport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Bath
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Bath Corner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bath Corner is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath Corner
- Columbia
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tacoma Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Tacoma Park is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tacoma Park
- Estimated population in 2014: 413 people
- Warner
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Day County
- Andover
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Edmunds County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- Mina
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Craven Corner
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Craven Corner is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven Corner
- Craven
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Craven is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craven
- Ipswich
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Powell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Powell is located in Edmunds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
- Faulk County
- Chelsea
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Chelsea is located in Faulk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
- McPherson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- Wetonka
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Wetonka is located in McPherson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetonka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
- Long Lake Colony
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Long Lake Colony is located in McPherson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake Colony
- Estimated population in 2014: 332 people
- Leola
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Spink County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- Duxbury
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Duxbury is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
- Estimated population in 2014: 531 people
- Mellette
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Northville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Brentford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fisher Estates, see our County-by-County Page for Fisher Estates.
Cemeteries Near Fisher Estates ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fisher Estates.
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 Fisher Estates - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fisher Estates covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- St. Marys Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Sunset Memorial Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Westport Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Warner Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- German Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Pembrook Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Scandinavia Lutheran Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Wetonka Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- James Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Richland Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (30 more) ...
- Bretheren Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- New Straasburg Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Strassburg Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 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.<4>
While we didn't find Fisher Estates in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fisher Estates.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fisher Estates, with the one closest to Fisher Estates listed first.
- Aberdeen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ordway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ordway is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
- Estimated population in 2014: 306 people
- Westport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Bath
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Plana
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Plana is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plana
- Rudolph
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Rudolph is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudolph
- Columbia
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mina
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Warner
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- James
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- James is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Putney
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Putney is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Putney
- Estimated population in 2014: 104 people
- Mansfield
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Duxbury
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Duxbury is located in Spink County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
- Estimated population in 2014: 531 people
- Groton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Huffton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Huffton is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffton
- Estimated population in 2014: 316 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fisher Estates. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fisher Estates.
Newspapers Published in Fisher Estates ...
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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fisher Estates.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fisher Estates, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fisher Estates.
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 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 Fisher Estates:
- Websites specific to South Dakota
- Pages specific to Brown County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Day County
- Edmunds County
- Faulk County
- McPherson County
- Spink County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for South Dakota
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> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fisher Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Fisher Estates, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |