Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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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 Big Warm (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 Big Warm. 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 and 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 Big Warm is historic, it would have been located within present day Blaine 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 Blaine County: Chouteau, Fergus, Hill & Phillips.

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

• Blaine County     (The home county of Big Warm)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Big Warm, with the one closest to Big Warm listed first.
  • Lodge Pole
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
    • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
  • Pine Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Pine Grove is located in Blaine County
  • Hays
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hays
    • Hays is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hays <3>
• Phillips County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Big Warm, with the one closest to Big Warm listed first.
  • Zortman
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zortman
    • Zortman is located in Phillips County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zortman <3>
  • Dodson
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dodson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 <3>
  • Wagner
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
    • Wagner is located in Phillips County

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

Newspapers Published in Big Warm ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Big Warm.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Big Warm, 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 Big Warm.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Big Warm:

• Websites specific to Montana
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Montana Historical Society

• Pages specific to Blaine County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Phillips County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Blaine County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Blaine County

Cemeteries Near Big Warm ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Big Warm.

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

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

• Kirkaldie Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirkaldie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkaldie Cemetery
• Chopwoid Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chopwoid Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chopwoid Cemetery
• Big Warm Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Big Warm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Big Warm Cemetery
• Messerly Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Messerly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Messerly Cemetery
• Zortman Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zortman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zortman Cemetery
• St. Pauls Mission Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Pauls Mission Cemetery
• Landusky Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Landusky Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Landusky Cemetery
• Pike Landusky Gravesite
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pike Landusky Gravesite
• Hays Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hays Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hays Cemetery
• McConnell Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McConnell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McConnell Cemetery
• Midale Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Midale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Midale Cemetery
• Graveyard Hill Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Graveyard Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graveyard Hill Cemetery
• Hillside Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
• Ft. Belknap Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Belknap Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Belknap 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 Big Warm in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Big Warm.

• Wagner
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • 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 Big Warm. See our List of 1890's Communities around Big Warm.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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