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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 Flandreau (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 Flandreau. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Flandreau is located in Moody County and is the County Seat.

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 Moody County: Pipestone (MN), Brookings, Lake & Minnehaha.

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

  • Moody County     (The home county of Flandreau)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flandreau, with the one closest to Flandreau listed first.
    • Egan
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sioux Falls Junction
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Sioux Falls Junction is located in Moody County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Falls Junction
      • Estimated population in 2014: 119 people
    • Lone Tree
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Lone Tree is located in Moody County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
      • Estimated population in 2014: 14 people
    • Ward
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Trent
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Colman
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Dyce ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Brookings County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flandreau, with the one closest to Flandreau listed first.
    • Elkton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Medary
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Medary is located in Brookings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medary
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,442 people
    • Aurora
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Bushnell
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Brookings
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Sunnyview
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Volga
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Sinai
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Sinai is located in Brookings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinai
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sinai <1>
    • White
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • White is located in Brookings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 487 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White <1>
    • North Grove Addition
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • North Grove Addition is located in Brookings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grove Addition
      • Estimated population in 2014: 471 people
    • Bruce
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Lake County
  • Minnehaha County
  • Lincoln County (MN)
  • Lyon County (MN)
    • Florence
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Florence is located in Lyon County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Pipestone County (MN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flandreau, with the one closest to Flandreau listed first.
    • Airlie
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Airlie is located in Pipestone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
    • Pipestone
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Ihlen
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Ihlen is located in Pipestone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ihlen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ihlen <1>
    • Jasper
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jasper Sunrise Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jasper Sunrise Village is located in Pipestone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper Sunrise Village
    • Hatfield
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Holland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Holland is located in Pipestone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
    • Trosky
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Woodstock
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Ruthton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Edgerton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Rock County (MN)

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

Cemeteries Near Flandreau ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Flandreau.

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

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

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

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 Flandreau had a population of 569 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Flandreau had a population of 2,293 people.

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

  • Egan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Sioux Falls Junction
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sioux Falls Junction is located in Moody County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Falls Junction
    • Estimated population in 2014: 119 people
  • Airlie
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Airlie is located in Pipestone County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
  • Trent
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Ward
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Colman
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Cazenovia
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Cazenovia is located in Pipestone County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cazenovia
  • Ihlen
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Ihlen is located in Pipestone County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ihlen
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ihlen <1>
  • Pipestone
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Elkton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Aurora
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Dell Rapids
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Flandreau ...

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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Flandreau.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Flandreau. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Flandreau and those printed in the larger area surrounding Flandreau.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Flandreau.

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 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 Flandreau:

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 Flandreau, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Flandreau) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.