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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 Thunder Hawk (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 Thunder Hawk. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Thunder Hawk is located in Corson County.

To see how the shape of South Dakota's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Corson County: Sioux (ND), Campbell, Dewey, Perkins, Walworth & Ziebach.

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

  • Corson County     (The home county of Thunder Hawk)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thunder Hawk, with the one closest to Thunder Hawk listed first.
    • Keldron
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Morristown
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morristown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morristown
      • Morristown is located in Corson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morristown <1>
    • Watauga
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • McIntosh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McIntosh have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McIntosh
      • McIntosh is located in Corson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McIntosh <1>
  • Perkins County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thunder Hawk, with the one closest to Thunder Hawk listed first.
    • Lemmon
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemmon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemmon
      • Lemmon is located in Perkins County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,160 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemmon <1>
    • Summerville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
      • Summerville is located in Perkins County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
    • Shadehill
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • White Butte
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Butte
      • White Butte is located in Perkins County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 19 people
    • Meadow
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Adams County (ND)
    • Haynes
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haynes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynes
      • Haynes is located in Adams County (ND)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
  • Grant County (ND)
    • New Leipzig
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Leipzig have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Leipzig
      • New Leipzig is located in Grant County (ND)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Leipzig <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Thunder Hawk ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Thunder Hawk.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Thunder Hawk, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Thunder Hawk.

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 Thunder Hawk:

Cemeteries Near Thunder Hawk ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thunder Hawk.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Green Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Green Hill Cemetery
  • Prince of Peace Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Stowers Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Stowers Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stowers Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102617 <4>
  • Selma Union Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Selma Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Selma Union Cemetery
  • North Lemmon Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Union Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Petrel Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Pilgerheim Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pilgerheim Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pilgerheim Cemetery
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
  • Long Butte Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Long Butte Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Butte Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102127 <4>
  • Cedar Valley Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pretty Rock Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pretty Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pretty Rock Cemetery
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Fleak Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fleak Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fleak Cemetery
    • Sein Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sein Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sein Cemetery
    • Norwegian Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norwegian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Thunder Hawk. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of South Dakota: sd.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Thunder Hawk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thunder Hawk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9383, Longitude: -101.9749       In this case, the coordinates for Thunder Hawk have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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