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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 Northport (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 Northport. 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 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.

Northport is located in Stevens County.

To see how the shape of Washington's counties 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 Northport. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Northport:

  • Stevens County     (The home county of Northport)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Northport, with the one closest to Northport listed first.
    • Marble
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble
      • Marble is located in Stevens County
    • Spirit
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spirit
      • Spirit is located in Stevens County
    • Evans
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Marcus
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
      • Marcus is located in Stevens County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
    • Pinkney City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinkney City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinkney City
      • Pinkney City is located in Stevens County
    • Kettle Falls
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Blue Town ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blue Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Town
      • Blue Town is located in Stevens County
    • Colville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Ferry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Northport, with the one closest to Northport listed first.
    • Barstow
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barstow
      • Barstow is located in Ferry County
    • Orient
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient
      • Orient is located in Ferry County
    • Laurier
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Pend Oreille County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Northport, with the one closest to Northport listed first.
    • Metaline Falls
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Metaline
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Pend Oreille Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pend Oreille Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pend Oreille Village
      • Pend Oreille Village is located in Pend Oreille County
    • Ione
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ione
      • Ione is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ione <1>
    • Diamond City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diamond City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
      • Diamond City is located in Pend Oreille County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Northport ...

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 Northport.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Northport. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Northport and those printed in the larger area surrounding Northport.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3> of Northport.

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 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 Northport:

Cemeteries Near Northport ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Northport.

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

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

  • Old Northport Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Northport Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Northport Cemetery
  • Forest Home Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forest Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Home Cemetery
  • Columbia Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Old Trail Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Columbia Riverview Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Kelly Hill Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kelly Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kelly Hill Cemetery
  • Bossburg Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bossburg Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bossburg Cemetery
  • Perkins Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Perkins Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Perkins Cemetery
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grandview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Harvey Grave
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harvey Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harvey Grave
    • Meyers Falls Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Evergreen Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)

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.<5>

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

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

  • Little Dalles ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Dalles have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Dalles
    • Little Dalles is located in Stevens County
  • Bossburg ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bossburg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bossburg
    • Bossburg is located in Stevens County
  • Marcus
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
    • Marcus is located in Stevens County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
  • Kettle Falls
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Colville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)

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

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

The official website for Stevens County: www.co.stevens.wa.us/

The official website for State of Washington: https://access.wa.gov/

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 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.
<3>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- Northport) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Northport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.9161, Longitude: -117.7816    
<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>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 Northport, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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