RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Montana >> Phillips County >> Ashfield >> Genealogy HelperIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Montana

The Commemorative Quarter for Montana





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 Ashfield (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 Ashfield. 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 and hospitals 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.

Ashfield is located in Phillips 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 Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.

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

  • Phillips County     (The home county of Ashfield)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ashfield, with the one closest to Ashfield listed first.
    • Saco
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saco
      • Saco is located in Phillips County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saco <1>
    • Malta
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Malta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 <1>
    • Whitewater
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Loring
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Wagner
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
      • Wagner is located in Phillips County
  • Valley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ashfield, with the one closest to Ashfield listed first.
    • Hinsdale
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Vandalia
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Ashfield ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ashfield.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ashfield, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ashfield.

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 Ashfield:

Cemeteries Near Ashfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ashfield.

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

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

  • Grandview Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • 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
  • Bowdoin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bowdoin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bowdoin Cemetery
  • Forks Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Hillview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillview Cemetery
  • Phillips County Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Phillips County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Phillips County Cemetery
  • Malta City Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • The Malta City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Malta Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Malta City Cemetery
  • Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • Hermanson Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hermanson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hermanson 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 Ashfield in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ashfield.

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

  • Beaverton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beaverton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaverton
    • Beaverton is located in Valley County
  • Hinsdale
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Vandalia
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Wagner
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
    • Wagner is located in Phillips County

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

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

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.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- Ashfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ashfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4619, Longitude: -107.4740       In this case, the coordinates for Ashfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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 Ashfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024