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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 White Butte (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 White Butte. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

White Butte is located in Perkins 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 Perkins County: Adams (ND), Butte, Corson, Harding, Meade & Ziebach.

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

  • Perkins County     (The home county of White Butte)
    • The following are listed by their distance from White Butte, with the one closest to White Butte listed first.
    • Lemmon
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemmon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
    • Shadehill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Summerville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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
    • Lodgepole
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodgepole have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodgepole
      • Lodgepole is located in Perkins County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 35 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lodgepole <2>
    • Bison
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bison have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bison
      • Bison is located in Perkins County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bison <2>
    • Meadow
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Corson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from White Butte, with the one closest to White Butte listed first.
    • Keldron
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Morristown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morristown have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
  • Adams County (ND)
    • The following are listed by their distance from White Butte, with the one closest to White Butte listed first.
    • Haynes
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haynes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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
    • Hettinger
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Bucyrus
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucyrus have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucyrus
      • Bucyrus is located in Adams County (ND)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24 people
    • Reeder
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeder
      • Reeder is located in Adams County (ND)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reeder <2>
  • Hettinger County (ND)
    • Mott
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mott have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
      • Mott is located in Hettinger County (ND)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 714 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mott <2>

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

Cemeteries Near White Butte ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of White Butte.

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 White Butte covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Petrel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • North Lemmon Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Lemmon Cemetery
    • The North Lemmon Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery
    • Immaculate Conception Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2575747 <3>
  • Haynes Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Green Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Green Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Cedar Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Hettinger Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Stowers Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stowers Cemetery
    • 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102617 <3>
  • Union Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Prince of Peace Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Long Butte Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Butte Cemetery
    • 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 Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102127 <3>
  • Norwegian Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norwegian Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norwegian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (24 more) ...
    • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Sein Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sein Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sein Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in White Butte ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around White Butte.

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

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 White Butte:

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- White Butte) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in White Butte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9406, Longitude: -102.3624       In this case, the coordinates for White Butte have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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