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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 Humboldt (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 Humboldt. 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.

Humboldt is located in Minnehaha 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 Minnehaha County: Lyon (IA), Rock (MN), Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Moody & Turner.

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

  • Minnehaha County     (The home county of Humboldt)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humboldt, with the one closest to Humboldt listed first.
    • Hartford
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Pumpkin Center
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Pumpkin Center is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
      • Estimated population in 2014: 13 people
    • Lyons
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Ellis Corner
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Ellis Corner is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis Corner
      • Estimated population in 2014: 99 people
    • Colton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • West Acres Development
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • West Acres Development is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Acres Development
      • Estimated population in 2014: 180 people
    • Crooks
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Crooks is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crooks <1>
    • Huntimer
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • El Rancho Acres
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • El Rancho Acres is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Rancho Acres
      • Estimated population in 2014: 27 people
    • Webster Grove Addition
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Webster Grove Addition is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Grove Addition
      • Estimated population in 2014: 156 people
    • Hayward Addition
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Hayward Addition is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward Addition
      • Estimated population in 2014: 380 people
    • Silver Valley Addition
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Silver Valley Addition is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Valley Addition
      • Estimated population in 2014: 112 people
    • Baltic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Baltic is located in Minnehaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baltic
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baltic <1>
  • Hanson County
  • Hutchinson County
  • Lake County
  • Lincoln County
  • McCook County
  • Miner County
    • Canova
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Moody County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humboldt, with the one closest to Humboldt listed first.
    • Colman
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Trent
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lone Tree
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lone Tree is located in Moody County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
      • Estimated population in 2014: 14 people
    • Sioux Falls Junction
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Sioux Falls Junction is located in Moody County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Falls Junction
      • Estimated population in 2014: 119 people
  • Turner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humboldt, with the one closest to Humboldt listed first.
    • Monroe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Parker
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Marion
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Dolton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Dolton is located in Turner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
    • Chancellor
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Hurley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Davis
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Hooker
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Humboldt ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Humboldt.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Humboldt, with the one closest to Humboldt 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 in 1895, Humboldt had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Humboldt had a population of 568 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Humboldt ...

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 109 newspapers that have been published in the area around Humboldt.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Humboldt:

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 Humboldt, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Humboldt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.