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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 Cline (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 Cline. 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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Cline is located in Yellowstone 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 Yellowstone County: Big Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Rosebud, Stillwater & Treasure.

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

  • Yellowstone County     (The home county of Cline)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cline, with the one closest to Cline listed first.
    • Lockwood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Lockwood is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockwood
    • Huntley
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Shepherd
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Billings
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Billings is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billings
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109,736 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Billings <1>
    • Ballantine
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Worden
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Acton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Acton is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton
    • Rimrock
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Rimrock is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rimrock
    • Hesper
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Hesper is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesper
    • Comanche
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Comanche is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
    • Laurel
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Laurel is located in Yellowstone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,715 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Laurel <1>
    • Pompeys Pillar
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Stillwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cline, with the one closest to Cline listed first.
    • Molt
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Park City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Cline ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cline.

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 Cline - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cline covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Riverside Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Shepherd Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherd Cemetery
    • The Shepherd Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    • Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • Boothill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boothill Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Boothill Cemetery is located in Billings.
    • The Boothill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Coulson Cemetery
  • Huntley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntley Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Huntley Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Huntley.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20936 <2>
  • Evangelical Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Scandia Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Beth Aaron Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Sunset Memorial Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountview Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountview Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Billings.
    • The Mountview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Billings Cemetery
    • Mountain View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21014 <2>
  • Yellowstone Valley Memorial Park
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Terrace Gardens Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...

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

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

  • Huntley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Billings
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Billings is located in Yellowstone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billings
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 109,736 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Billings <1>
  • Laurel
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Laurel is located in Yellowstone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,715 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Laurel <1>
  • Pompeys Pillar
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Bull Mountain
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Bull Mountain is located in Yellowstone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Mountain

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

Newspapers Published in Cline ...

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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cline.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cline, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cline.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Cline:

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 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.
<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- Cline) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Cline, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.