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Welcome to Brookside ...

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

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


Brookside would have been located within present day Phillips County<2>.


The location of Brookside has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookside, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1903.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Brookside is 2,810 feet [856 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Brookside is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Brookside was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Brookside once stood is in the (406) area code.

Communities Also Named Brookside ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 50 communities that are also named Brookside - they are located in Alabama (3), California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida (2), Illinois (2), Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts (2), Michigan (3), Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (9), South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Utah, Vermont (2), Virginia (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brookside.

Communities near Brookside ...

We have created a list of 7 communities that are near Brookside.

  • Lodge Pole
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
    • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
  • Zortman
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Pine Grove
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Pine Grove is located in Blaine County
  • Hays
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Dodson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dodson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
    • Dodson is located in Phillips County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dodson <5>
  • Wagner
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
    • Wagner is located in Phillips County
  • Malta
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Malta have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
    • Malta is located in Phillips County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Malta <5>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brookside. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookside.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brookside. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookside.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookside. See our Newspapers Page for Brookside.

Adding Brookside to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Brookside in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brookside was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Brookside post office opened in 1903.

We also found Brookside on a map titled Hixson Map of Montana (1950).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookside.

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

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 Brookside, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Montana's counties, including Phillips, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>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.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Brookside - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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