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Introduction ...

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

We've added Beartown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Beartown, 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 Beartown (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 Beartown. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Beartown is historic, it would have been located within present day Granite 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 Granite County: Beaverhead, Deer Lodge, Missoula, Powell & Ravalli.

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

  • Granite County     (The home county of Beartown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Beartown, with the one closest to Beartown listed first.
    • Garnet ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garnet
      • Garnet is located in Granite County
    • Stump Town ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stump Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stump Town
      • Stump Town is located in Granite County
    • Bearmouth ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bearmouth have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearmouth
      • Bearmouth is located in Granite County
    • Drummond
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Hall
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Stone
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone
      • Stone is located in Granite County
  • Missoula County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Beartown, with the one closest to Beartown listed first.
    • Greenough
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Clinton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clinton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
      • Clinton is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clinton <3>
    • Bonner
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Piltzville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piltzville
      • Piltzville is located in Missoula County
    • Milltown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Seeley Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • East Missoula
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Missoula
      • East Missoula is located in Missoula County
  • Powell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Beartown, with the one closest to Beartown listed first.
    • Reynolds City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reynolds City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds City
      • Reynolds City is located in Powell County
    • Helmville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Ovando
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jens
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jens
      • Jens is located in Powell County
    • Goldcreek ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Wall City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wall City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall City
      • Wall City is located in Powell County
    • Phosphate
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Phosphate. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phosphate
      • Phosphate is located in Powell County

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

Newspapers Published in Beartown ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Beartown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Beartown, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Beartown.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Beartown:

Cemeteries Near Beartown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Beartown.

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

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

  • Beartown Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Beartown Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beartown Cemetery
  • Sand Park Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • The Sand Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Coloma Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Park Cemetery
  • Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Cemetery
  • Seeley Lake Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Helmville Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Helmville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Helmville Cemetery
  • St. Thomas Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Thomas Cemetery
  • Ovando Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Lincoln Gulch Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lincoln Gulch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lincoln Gulch 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.

Beartown itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 20 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Drummond
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Potomac
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Potomac have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potomac
    • Potomac is located in Missoula County
  • Clinton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clinton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
    • Clinton is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clinton <3>
  • Helmville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Ovando
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Stone
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone
    • Stone is located in Granite County
  • Goldcreek ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Bonner
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Pioneer ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pioneer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer
    • Pioneer is located in Powell County

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

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 Beartown, 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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Beartown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Beartown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.7929, Longitude: -113.3411       In this case, the coordinates for Beartown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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