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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 Hanson (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 Hanson. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of Hanson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hanson, with the one closest to Hanson listed first.
    • Hartline
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Electric City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Grand Coulee
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Banks Lake South
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Banks Lake South is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks Lake South
    • Coulee City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Wilson Creek
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Krupp
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Krupp is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krupp
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
    • Marlin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Marlin is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marlin
    • Stratford
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Stratford is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratford
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hanson, with the one closest to Hanson listed first.
    • Mold ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Mold is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mold
    • Coulee Dam
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Osborne Corner
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Osborne Corner is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne Corner
    • Mansfield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Ferry County
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hanson, with the one closest to Hanson listed first.
    • Almira
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
    • Wilbur
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Creston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Okanogan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hanson, with the one closest to Hanson listed first.
    • Mason City ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Mason City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason City
    • Elmer City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Nespelem
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Nespelem is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nespelem
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people

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

Cemeteries Near Hanson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hanson.

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

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

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

  • Welsh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Almira Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Lafollette Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Tolonen Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Coulee City Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Wheat Ridge Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Spring Canyon Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Mold Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Danish Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Freedensfeld Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedensfeld Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Freedensfeld Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the north of Odessa.
    • The Freedensfeld Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Quast Cemetery
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Highland Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 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.<4>

While we didn't find Hanson in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hanson.

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

  • Almira
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Govan ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Govan is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Govan
  • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
  • Wilbur
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Sherman ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Sherman is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
  • Saint Andrews
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Saint Andrews is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
  • Creston
    (22 miles [35.4 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 Hanson. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hanson.

Newspapers Published in Hanson ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hanson.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Hanson:

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>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- Hanson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Hanson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.