Hi Don Cemeteries are probably the easiest to tie to townships. The published cemetery books of ND, and the book of recognized cemeteries put out in 2001 by the ND Health Dept. give their locations in legal descriptions. That ties them to the township directly. A few of the older published cemetery books don't give legal descriptions. People reading or reporting on those cemeteries didn't know where the hell they were. No doubt you can get the legal descrption of the center of a town from some source such as a Geologic Survey quadrangle map. They are given on the Tiger Maps server in GPS coordinates, but you'd have to have a Quadrangle map to translate that to a legal description. Schools are given only in location as to the school district. They were moved around a lot withing the district, depending upon who was going to school. They often had the house movers physically move the school over a few miles. Early on the school district amounted to four townships. As population grew, the townships became school districts and were named. So the name of the township would tell you where the schools were but there were likely up to 5 or 6 actual rural schools in each township. To find the location of each one would be a history lesson in using old county atlases. The teacher's year end reports (if they exist now) gave the names of the inidivual schools and the name of the school district, but likely not the actual location of the school other than being called the Jones school because it was near or on Jones' land. Does that do anything for you? George ----- Original Message ----- From: <DTGARDNER@aol.com> To: <NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:56 PM Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Townships > Does anyone know of a way to associate Towns, Cemeteries, Schools and other > places to the township they were in? > > Thanks Don Gardner > CC Ward County >