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 Belmont (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 Belmont. 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 hospitals 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.
Belmont is located in Golden Valley County.
To see how the shape of Montana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Golden Valley County: Fergus, Musselshell, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland & Yellowstone.
Below are the counties that are near Belmont. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Belmont:
- Golden Valley County (The home county of Belmont)
- The following are listed by their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Lavina
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Ryegate
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Musselshell County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Camp Three
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Camp Three is located in Musselshell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Three
- Klein
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Klein is located in Musselshell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klein
- Roundup
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Stillwater County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Rapelje
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Molt
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Wheatland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Shawmut
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Hedgesville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hedgesville is located in Wheatland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgesville
- Yellowstone County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Broadview
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Comanche
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Comanche is located in Yellowstone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
- Acton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Acton is located in Yellowstone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Belmont, see our County-by-County Page for Belmont.
Cemeteries Near Belmont ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Belmont.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Belmont - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Belmont covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Belmont Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Belmont Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the south of Lavina.
- The Belmont Cemetery has also been known as:
- Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2381121 <3>
- Lavina Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavina Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lavina Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Lavina.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2158983 <3>
- Assumption Catholic Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Broadview Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Resurrection Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resurrection Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Resurrection Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Ryegate.
- The Resurrection Cemetery has also been known as:
- Catholic Cemetery
- Ryegate Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #324002 <3>
- Ryegate Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryegate Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ryegate Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Ryegate.
- The Ryegate Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ryegate City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #323959 <3>
- Helm Memorial Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Barber Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Rapelje Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hoskin Basin Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- United Mine Workers of America Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Miracle Lodge #84 Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Rothiemay Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Roundup Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Hedgesville Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgesville Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hedgesville Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the north of Shawmut.
- The Hedgesville Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hedges Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2285731 <3>
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 Belmont in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Belmont.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Belmont, with the one closest to Belmont listed first.
- Roundup
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Shawmut
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Belmont. See our List of 1890's Communities around Belmont.
Newspapers Published in Belmont ...
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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Belmont.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Belmont, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Belmont.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Belmont:
- Websites specific to Montana
- Pages specific to Golden Valley County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Musselshell County
- Stillwater County
- Wheatland County
- Yellowstone County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Belmont) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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 Belmont, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |