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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 Bredette (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 Bredette. 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.

Bredette is located in Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Daniels, McCone, Richland, Sheridan, Valley & Williams (ND).

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

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Bredette)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bredette, with the one closest to Bredette listed first.
    • Poplar
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poplar have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
      • Poplar is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poplar <2>
    • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deertail Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deertail Indian Village
      • Deertail Indian Village is located in Roosevelt County
    • Brockton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brockton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockton
      • Brockton is located in Roosevelt County
      • Estimated population in 2018: 234 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brockton <2>
  • Daniels County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bredette, with the one closest to Bredette listed first.
    • Scobey
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Flaxville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Four Buttes
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Buttes
      • Four Buttes is located in Daniels County
    • Whitetail
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Peerless
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Sheridan County
  • Valley County

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

Cemeteries Near Bredette ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bredette.

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

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

  • Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Orville Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Orville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Orville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Zion Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zion Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Faith Lutheran Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Faith Lutheran Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Faith Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Scobey Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scobey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scobey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Volt Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Bethel Wolf Point Mennonite Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Flaxville Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Flaxville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Flaxville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Chelsa Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chelsa Cemetery
    • The Chelsa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Minisdah Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Boxelder Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boxelder Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boxelder Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Anns Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anns Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Eng Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eng Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Eng Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Valleyview Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valleyview Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valleyview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Poplar Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poplar Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Poplar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Bredette ...

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 Bredette.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bredette, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bredette.

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 Bredette:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bredette. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bredette) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bredette. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5056, Longitude: -105.2997       In this case, the coordinates for Bredette have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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