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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 Gray Goose (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 Gray Goose. 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 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.

Gray Goose is located in Hughes 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 Hughes County: Hyde, Lyman, Stanley & Sully.

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

  • Hughes County     (The home county of Gray Goose)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gray Goose, with the one closest to Gray Goose listed first.
    • Pierre
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Oahe
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Oahe is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
      • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
    • Alto
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Alto is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
    • Blunt
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Canning
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Canning is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
    • Rousseau
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Rousseau is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau
    • Harrold
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Stanley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gray Goose, with the one closest to Gray Goose listed first.
    • Fort Pierre
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Verendrye Hill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Verendrye Hill is located in Stanley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verendrye Hill
      • Estimated population in 2014: 5 people
    • Teton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Teton is located in Stanley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teton
      • Estimated population in 2014: 59 people
    • Lacy
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Lacy is located in Stanley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
      • Estimated population in 2014: 66 people
    • Mission Ridge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Orton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Orton is located in Stanley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orton
      • Estimated population in 2014: 66 people
  • Sully County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gray Goose, with the one closest to Gray Goose listed first.
    • Okobojo
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Okobojo is located in Sully County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okobojo
    • Onida
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Agar
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Gray Goose ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gray Goose.

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 Gray Goose - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Calvary Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Scotty Philip Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Lone Grave Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Riverside Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Pierre.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #97458 <3>
  • Okobojo Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the west of Blunt.
    • The Pleasant Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Blunt Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #96825 <3>
  • Canning Prairie Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning Prairie Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Canning Prairie Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<2> to the south of Blunt.
    • The Canning Prairie Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Canning Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2383075 <3>
  • Blair Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Mission Ridge Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Chapelle Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Agar Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Schreiber Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Medicine Hill Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Hill Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Medicine Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Harrold.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #97239 <3>

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 Gray Goose in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Gray Goose.

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

  • Oahe
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Oahe is located in Hughes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oahe
    • Estimated population in 2014: 474 people
  • Okobojo
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Okobojo is located in Sully County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okobojo
  • Fort Pierre
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Canning
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Canning is located in Hughes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canning
  • Blunt
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Rousseau
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Rousseau is located in Hughes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rousseau
  • Onida
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • De Grey
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • De Grey is located in Hughes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Grey

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

Newspapers Published in Gray Goose ...

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 77 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gray Goose.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gray Goose, 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 Gray Goose.

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 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 Gray Goose:

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' (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- Gray Goose) 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 Gray Goose, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.