Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

Name Variations for Burnt Creek ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Burnt Creek: Burnt Crk. (or less commonly used: Burnt Ck. or Burnt Cr.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Burnt Creek is historic, it would have been located within present day Treasure 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 Treasure County: Big Horn, Musselshell, Petroleum, Rosebud & Yellowstone.

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

• Treasure County     (The home county of Burnt Creek)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Burnt Creek, with the one closest to Burnt Creek listed first.
  • Bighorn
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bighorn
    • Bighorn is located in Treasure County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bighorn <2>
  • Myers
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Myers have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
    • Myers is located in Treasure County
  • Hysham
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hysham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hysham
    • Hysham is located in Treasure County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 307 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hysham <2>
  • Sanders
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanders
    • Sanders is located in Treasure County
• Big Horn County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Burnt Creek, with the one closest to Burnt Creek listed first.
  • Hardin
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hardin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
    • Hardin is located in Big Horn County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,705 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hardin <2>
  • Crow Agency
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Agency
    • Crow Agency is located in Big Horn County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crow Agency <2>
• Rosebud County
  • Colstrip
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colstrip
    • Colstrip is located in Rosebud County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,217 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colstrip <2>
• Yellowstone County
  • Custer
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Custer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
    • Custer is located in Yellowstone County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Custer <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Burnt Creek ...

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 Burnt Creek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Burnt Creek, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Burnt Creek.

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 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 Burnt Creek:

• 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 Treasure County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Big Horn County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Rosebud County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Yellowstone 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 Treasure County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Treasure County

Cemeteries Near Burnt Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Burnt Creek.

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

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

• Memorial Vale Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Vale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Vale Cemetery
• Custer Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Custer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2202843 <5>
• Rancher Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rancher Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rancher Cemetery
• Howard Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Howard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howard Cemetery
• Fairview Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Hardin.
  • The Fairview Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Hardin Community Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1382971 <5>

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 Burnt Creek in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Burnt Creek.

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

• Custer
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Custer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
  • Custer is located in Yellowstone County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Custer <2>
• Howard ‑ Historic
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
  • Howard is located in Rosebud County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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