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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 Fordair (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 Fordair. 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.

Fordair is located in Grant County.

To see how the shape of Washington'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: Adams, Benton, Douglas, Franklin, Kittitas, Lincoln, Okanogan & Yakima.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of Fordair)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fordair, with the one closest to Fordair listed first.
    • Banks Lake South
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Banks Lake South is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks Lake South
    • Coulee City
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Hartline
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Stratford
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Stratford is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratford
    • Wilson Creek
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Krupp
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Krupp is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krupp
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
    • Marlin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Marlin is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marlin
    • Soap Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lakeview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Lakeview is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
    • Electric City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Grand Coulee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Ephrata
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fordair, with the one closest to Fordair listed first.
    • Mold ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Mold is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mold
    • Mansfield
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Withrow
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Withrow is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withrow
    • Coulee Dam
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Osborne Corner
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Osborne Corner is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne Corner
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fordair, with the one closest to Fordair listed first.
    • Almira
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
    • Wilbur
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Okanogan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fordair, with the one closest to Fordair listed first.
    • Mason City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Mason City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason City
    • Elmer City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Fordair ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fordair.

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

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

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

  • Coulee City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Mold Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Danish Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Welsh Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Almira Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Jameson Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Tolonen Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Lafollette Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Buckingham Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Wheat Ridge Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Spring Canyon Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Happy Home Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)

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 Fordair in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fordair.

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

  • Saint Andrews
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Andrews is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
  • Almira
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Govan ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Govan is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Govan
  • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
  • Wilbur
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Fordair ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fordair.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fordair, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fordair.

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 Fordair:

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