Burke County, North Dakota, United States

Details for Burke County

Name

Burke County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Dakota, United States

County Seat

Bowbells

Coordinates

Latitude		48.7667006		48° 46' 00.1" N
Longitude		-102.5337839		102° 32' 01.6" W

Population

3,002

Elevation

644 m

Surrounding Counties

Renville E
Ward SE
Mountrail S
Williams SW
Divide W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1034235

Histopolis Place ID

725508097

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Burke County

7 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1757 (3 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Burke County, N.Dak. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/BR.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Burke County ND Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/burke/burke.htm (22 Jan 2010)

Burke County, North Dakota ND, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Burke County, North Dakota ND, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22524 (20 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Burke County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22524&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (28 Jan 2009)

Burke County, North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_County,_North_Dakota (28 Jul 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Burke County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Burke County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/ND/Burke/ (22 Feb 2010)

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Surveys in Burke County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 37 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Burke County. You can navigate to any of the 37 survey townships that overlap Burke County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Burke County

31 Townships, 6 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Battleview	Bowbells	Bowbells (city)	Carter
Clayton	Cleary	Columbus (city)	Colville
Dale	Dimond	Fay	Flaxton (city)
Foothills	Forthun	Garness	Harmonious
Harmonius	Kandiyohi	Keller	Lakeview
Leaf Mountain	Lignite (city)	Lucy	Luey
Minnesota	North Star	Portal	Portal (city)
Powers Lake (city)	Richland	Roseland	Short Creek
Soo	Thorson	Vale	Vanville
Ward

Cities of Burke County

6 Cities, 12 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Atcoal	Battleview	Bowbells (city)	Columbus (city)
Coteau	Flaxton (city)	Kincaid	Larson
Lignite (city)	Northgate	Perella	Portal (city)
Powers Lake (city)	Rival	Sevenmile Corner	Stampede
Vanville	Woburn

Cemeteries of Burke County

23 Cemeteries, 5 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bethane	Bethel (Battleview Township)	Bethel (Colville Township)	Bowbells
Columbus	Danish	East	Elbow Lake Bethel
Flaxton	Little Butte	Little Butte	Norwegian
Old Bethel	Saint James	Saint James	Saint Joseph
Saint Marys	Saint Olaf	South	St. James (*)
St. James (*)	St. Joseph (*)	St. Marys (*)	St. Olaf (*)
Swedish	Vanville	Vanville	Zion

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