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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 Zeona (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 Zeona. 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 and hospitals 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.

Zeona 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 Zeona. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Zeona:

  • Perkins County     (The home county of Zeona)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zeona, with the one closest to Zeona listed first.
    • Strool
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strool have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strool
      • Strool is located in Perkins County
      • Estimated population in 2014: 52 people
    • Prairie City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie City
      • Prairie City is located in Perkins County
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 23 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie City <2>
  • Butte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zeona, with the one closest to Zeona listed first.
    • Hoover
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Castle Rock
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Castle Rock. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rock
      • Castle Rock is located in Butte County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Castle Rock
      • From Zeona to Castle Rock
  • Harding County
    • Reva
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reva have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reva
      • Reva is located in Harding County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reva <2>
  • Meade County

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

Cemeteries Near Zeona ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Zeona.

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

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

  • Ruby Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ruby Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ruby Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Date Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Date Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Date Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plum Draw Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plum Draw Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plum Draw Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Anthony Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anthony Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anthony Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Saint Anthony's Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Henry Bingaman Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Henry Bingaman Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Henry Bingaman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Redig Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Redig Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Redig Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Backes Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Backes Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Backes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Zeona ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Zeona.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Zeona, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Zeona.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Zeona:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Zeona. 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>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.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Zeona) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Zeona. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1943, Longitude: -102.9176    









 

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