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Introduction ...

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

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

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 Ashmoor (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 Ashmoor. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Ashmoor is historic, it would have been located within present day Chouteau 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 Chouteau County: Blaine, Cascade, Fergus, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, Pondera & Teton.

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

  • Chouteau County     (The home county of Ashmoor)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ashmoor, with the one closest to Ashmoor listed first.
    • Carter
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carter have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
      • Carter is located in Chouteau County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carter <3>
    • Floweree
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pondera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ashmoor, with the one closest to Ashmoor listed first.
    • Brady
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Ledger
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Conrad
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conrad have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conrad
      • Conrad is located in Pondera County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,412 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Conrad <3>
  • Teton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ashmoor, with the one closest to Ashmoor listed first.
    • Dutton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dutton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutton
      • Dutton is located in Teton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 325 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dutton <3>
    • Collins
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
      • Collins is located in Teton County
    • Power
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Power have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power
      • Power is located in Teton County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Power <3>
  • Toole County

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

Newspapers Published in Ashmoor ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ashmoor.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ashmoor, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ashmoor.

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 Ashmoor:

Cemeteries Near Ashmoor ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ashmoor.

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

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

  • The Knees Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • The The Knees Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Knees Community Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the The Knees Cemetery
  • German Baptist Church Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the German Baptist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the German Baptist Church Cemetery
  • Sample Flat Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sample Flat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sample Flat Cemetery
  • Golden West Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Twin Hills Colony Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • St. Olaf Lutheran Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Riverview Colony Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Wolfe Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Omholt Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omholt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omholt Cemetery
  • Camrose Colony Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Dutton Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Erickson Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Carter Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Galata Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Galata Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galata Cemetery
    • Power Community Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Power Community Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Power Community 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.

While we didn't find Ashmoor in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ashmoor.

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

  • Collins
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
    • Collins is located in Teton County
  • Floweree
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Tunis
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tunis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis
    • Tunis is located in Chouteau County
  • Portage
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Portage have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
    • Portage is located in Cascade County
  • Conrad
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conrad have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conrad
    • Conrad is located in Pondera County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,412 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Conrad <3>

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

The official website for Chouteau County: www.co.chouteau.mt.us/

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 Ashmoor, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Ashmoor) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ashmoor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.0633, Longitude: -111.3258       In this case, the coordinates for Ashmoor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.




 

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