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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 Blackfoot (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 Blackfoot. 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 and 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.

Blackfoot is located in Glacier 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 Glacier County: Flathead, Pondera & Toole.

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

  • Glacier County     (The home county of Blackfoot)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blackfoot, with the one closest to Blackfoot listed first.
    • Browning
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • North Browning
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Browning have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Browning
      • North Browning is located in Glacier County
    • South Browning
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Browning
      • South Browning is located in Glacier County
    • Starr School
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Starr School have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starr School
      • Starr School is located in Glacier County
    • East Glacier Park Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • East Glacier Park
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Kiowa
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Cut Bank
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Santa Rita
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Saint Mary
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Rising Sun
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising Sun
      • Rising Sun is located in Glacier County
  • Pondera County

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

Newspapers Published in Blackfoot ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blackfoot.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blackfoot, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Blackfoot.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Blackfoot:

Cemeteries Near Blackfoot ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blackfoot.

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

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

  • Nightshoot Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • The Nightshoot Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Sharp Cemetery
    • Sharp - Nightshoot Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nightshoot Cemetery
  • Birdrattler Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Birdrattler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Birdrattler Cemetery
  • Willow Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willow Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Creek Cemetery
  • Holy Family Mission Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery
  • Earring Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Earring Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Earring Cemetery
  • Four Horns Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Four Horns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Four Horns Cemetery
  • Afterbuffalo Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Afterbuffalo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Afterbuffalo Cemetery
  • Seville Colony Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • East Glacier Park Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Glacier Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Glacier Park Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Schildt Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Schildt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schildt Cemetery
    • St. Anne Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anne Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anne Cemetery
    • Robare Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Robare Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robare Cemetery
    • Glendale Colony Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Crown Hill Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Birch Creek Colony Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Blackfoot. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Blackfoot) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blackfoot. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5753, Longitude: -112.8767       In this case, the coordinates for Blackfoot have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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