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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Little Dalles. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Little Dalles to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Little Dalles, please Contact Us.

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 Little Dalles (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 Little Dalles. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Little Dalles is historic, it would have been located within present day Stevens 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 Stevens County: Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille & Spokane.

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

  • Stevens County     (The home county of Little Dalles)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Dalles, with the one closest to Little Dalles listed first.
    • Marble
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Marble is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble
    • Northport
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Spirit
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Spirit is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spirit
    • Evans
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Marcus
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Marcus is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
    • Pinkney City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Pinkney City is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinkney City
    • Blue Town ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Blue Town is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Town
    • Kettle Falls
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Colville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Ferry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Dalles, with the one closest to Little Dalles listed first.
    • Barstow
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Barstow is located in Ferry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barstow
    • Orient
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Orient is located in Ferry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient
    • Laurier
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Danville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Pend Oreille County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Dalles, with the one closest to Little Dalles listed first.
    • Ione
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Ione is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ione
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ione <2>
    • Metaline
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Metaline Falls
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Pend Oreille Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Pend Oreille Village is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pend Oreille Village

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

Cemeteries Near Little Dalles ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Dalles.

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 Little Dalles - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Old Northport Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Forest Home Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Bossburg Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Kelly Hill Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Trail Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Columbia Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Cemetery
    • The Columbia Cemetery has also been known as:
    • City of Rossland Cemetery
    • Rossland Cemetery
    • Sunnyside Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2418748 <3>
  • Meyers Falls Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Evergreen Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Colville.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #76777 <3>
  • Columbia Riverview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Riverview Cemetery
    • The Columbia Riverview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Knights of Pythias Cemetery
  • Highland Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Mountain View Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Calvary Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)

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.

Little Dalles itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Bossburg ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Bossburg is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bossburg
  • Marcus
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Marcus is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
  • Kettle Falls
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Colville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Arden
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Arden is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden

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

Newspapers Published in Little Dalles ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Dalles.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Dalles, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Dalles.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Little Dalles:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Little Dalles, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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' (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- Little Dalles) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.