Our Genealogy Helper

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 Albion (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 Albion. 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 hospitals 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.

Albion is located in Carter County.

To see how the shape of Montana's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carter County: Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Butte (SD), Harding (SD) & Crook (WY).

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

• Carter County     (The home county of Albion)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Albion, with the one closest to Albion listed first.
  • Alzada
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alzada
    • Alzada is located in Carter County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alzada <1>
  • Capitol
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitol
    • Capitol is located in Carter County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Capitol <1>
• Harding County (SD)
  • Camp Crook
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Crook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Crook
    • Camp Crook is located in Harding County (SD)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Camp Crook <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Albion ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Albion.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Albion, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Albion.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Albion:

• Websites specific to Montana
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Montana Historical Society

• Pages specific to Carter County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Harding County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Carter County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Albion ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Albion.

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

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

• Alzada Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alzada Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alzada Cemetery
• Gustave Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gustave Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gustave Cemetery
• Capitol Church Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Capitol Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Capitol Church Cemetery
• Capitol Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Capitol Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Capitol Cemetery
• Short Pine Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Short Pine Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Short Pine Cemetery
• Fairview Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
• Pioneer Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery

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 Albion in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Albion.

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

• Capitol
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitol
  • Capitol is located in Carter County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Capitol <1>
• Camp Crook
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Crook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Crook
  • Camp Crook is located in Harding County (SD)
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Camp Crook <1>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/