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 Red Shirt (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 Red Shirt. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Red Shirt is located in Oglala Lakota 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 Oglala Lakota County: Dawes (NE), Sheridan (NE), Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson & Pennington.
Below are the counties that are near Red Shirt. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Red Shirt:
- Oglala Lakota County (The home county of Red Shirt)
- Rockyford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Rockyford is located in Oglala Lakota County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockyford
- Custer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Red Shirt, with the one closest to Red Shirt listed first.
- Fairburn
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Hermosa
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Buffalo Gap
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- State Game Lodge
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- State Game Lodge is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Game Lodge
- Estimated population in 2014: 29 people
- Spokane ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Spokane is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokane
- Estimated population in 2014: 3,237 people
- Fall River County
- The following are listed by their distance from Red Shirt, with the one closest to Red Shirt listed first.
- Oral
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Smithwick
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pennington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Red Shirt, with the one closest to Red Shirt listed first.
- Scenic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Creston ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Creston is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
- Farmingdale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Farmingdale is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmingdale
- Estimated population in 2014: 10 people
- Caputa
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Imlay
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Imlay is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
- Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
- Hayward ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hayward is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
- Green Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Green Valley is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
- Estimated population in 2014: 51 people
- Owanka
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Frenchtown ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Frenchtown is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchtown
- Estimated population in 2014: 276 people
- Harney
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Harney is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
- Estimated population in 2014: 64 people
- Murphy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Murphy is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy
- Estimated population in 2014: 482 people
- New Underwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Rapid Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Rapid Valley is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rapid Valley
- Population from the 2010 Census: 8,260 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Red Shirt, see our County-by-County Page for Red Shirt.
Cemeteries Near Red Shirt ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Red Shirt.
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 Red Shirt - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Red Shirt covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Red Shirt, with the one closest to Red Shirt listed first.
- Fairburn Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Scenic Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Larsen Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Buffalo Gap Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hines Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Owanka Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Fairview Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Keystone.
- The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
- Keystone Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #97167 <2>
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>
While we didn't find Red Shirt in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Red Shirt.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Red Shirt, with the one closest to Red Shirt listed first.
- Folsom
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Folsom is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
- Fairburn
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Hermosa
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Creston ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Creston is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
- Farmingdale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Farmingdale is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmingdale
- Estimated population in 2014: 10 people
- Buffalo Gap
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hayward ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hayward is located in Pennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
- Spokane ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Spokane is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokane
- Estimated population in 2014: 3,237 people
- Smithwick
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Red Shirt. See our List of 1890's Communities around Red Shirt.
Newspapers Published in Red Shirt ...
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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Red Shirt.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Red Shirt, 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 Red Shirt.
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 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 Red Shirt:
- Websites specific to South Dakota
- Pages specific to Oglala Lakota County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Custer County
- Fall River County
- Pennington 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> | 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 Red Shirt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Red Shirt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |