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 Cooke City - Silver Gate (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 Cooke City - Silver Gate. 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.

Cooke City - Silver Gate is located in Park 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 Park County: Carbon, Gallatin, Meagher, Stillwater, Sweet Grass & Park (WY).

Below are the counties that are near Cooke City - Silver Gate. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cooke City - Silver Gate:

• Park County     (The home county of Cooke City - Silver Gate)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Cooke City - Silver Gate, with the one closest to Cooke City - Silver Gate listed first.
  • Cooke City
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooke City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooke City
    • Cooke City is located in Park County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cooke City <2>
  • Silver Gate
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Gate
    • Silver Gate is located in Park County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silver Gate <2>
• Stillwater County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Cooke City - Silver Gate, with the one closest to Cooke City - Silver Gate listed first.
  • Nye
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nye
    • Nye is located in Stillwater County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nye <2>
  • Dean
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dean
    • Dean is located in Stillwater County

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

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 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 Cooke City - Silver Gate:

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Stillwater 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 Park County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Park County

Cemeteries Near Cooke City - Silver Gate ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cooke City - Silver Gate.

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 Cooke City - Silver Gate covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cooke City - Silver Gate, with the one closest to Cooke City - Silver Gate listed first.

• Cooke City Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cooke City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cooke City Cemetery
• Luoma Ranch Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Luoma Ranch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Luoma Ranch Cemetery
• Nye Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nye Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nye 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.<3>

While we didn't find Cooke City - Silver Gate in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cooke City - Silver Gate.

• Cooke City
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooke City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooke City
  • Cooke City is located in Park County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cooke City <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Park County: www.parkcounty.org/

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