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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 LaBolt (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 LaBolt. 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 LaBolt ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Another variation: La Bolt.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

LaBolt is located in Grant 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 Grant County: Big Stone (MN), Lac qui Parle (MN), Codington, Day, Deuel & Roberts.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of LaBolt)
  • Codington County
  • Deuel County
    • The following are listed by their distance from LaBolt, with the one closest to LaBolt listed first.
    • Tunerville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Tunerville is located in Deuel County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunerville
      • Estimated population in 2014: 218 people
    • Altamont
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Altamont is located in Deuel County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
    • Goodwin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Moritz
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Bemis
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Clear Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Gary
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Brandt
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Hamlin County
  • Roberts County
    • The following are listed by their distance from LaBolt, with the one closest to LaBolt listed first.
    • Corona
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Hartford Beach
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hartford Beach is located in Roberts County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford Beach
      • Estimated population in 2014: 126 people
    • Shady Beach
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Summit
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • South Dakota Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • South Dakota Park is located in Roberts County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dakota Park
      • Estimated population in 2014: 15 people
    • Wilmot
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Big Stone County (MN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from LaBolt, with the one closest to LaBolt listed first.
    • Ortonville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Odessa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Odessa is located in Big Stone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odessa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Odessa <1>
    • Correll
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Correll is located in Big Stone County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Correll
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
    • Clinton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Lac qui Parle County (MN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from LaBolt, with the one closest to LaBolt listed first.
    • Nassau
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Nassau is located in Lac qui Parle County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nassau
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nassau <1>
    • Marietta
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Marietta is located in Lac qui Parle County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 138 people
    • Bellingham
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Bellingham is located in Lac qui Parle County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellingham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
    • Madison
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Madison is located in Lac qui Parle County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,376 people
    • Louisburg
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Louisburg is located in Lac qui Parle County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
  • Yellow Medicine County (MN)

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

Cemeteries Near LaBolt ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of LaBolt.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from LaBolt, with the one closest to LaBolt 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, LaBolt had railroad service and no post office. In 2020, LaBolt had a population of 67 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in LaBolt ...

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 84 newspapers that have been published in the area around LaBolt.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of LaBolt, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for LaBolt.

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 helpful 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 LaBolt:

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