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Introduction ...

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

We've added Copper Camp to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Copper Camp, please Contact Us.

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 Copper Camp (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 Copper Camp. 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 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Copper Camp is historic, it would have been located within present day Lewis and Clark 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 Lewis and Clark County: Broadwater, Cascade, Flathead, Jefferson, Meagher, Powell & Teton.

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

  • Lewis and Clark County     (The home county of Copper Camp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Camp, with the one closest to Copper Camp listed first.
    • Lincoln
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincoln have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
      • Lincoln is located in Lewis and Clark County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lincoln <3>
    • Atlantic City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Atlantic City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlantic City
      • Atlantic City is located in Lewis and Clark County
    • Canyon Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Granite County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Camp, with the one closest to Copper Camp listed first.
    • Garnet ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garnet
      • Garnet is located in Granite County
    • Stump Town ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stump Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stump Town
      • Stump Town is located in Granite County
  • Powell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Camp, with the one closest to Copper Camp listed first.
    • Helmville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Ovando
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Reynolds City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reynolds City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds City
      • Reynolds City is located in Powell County
    • Blackfoot City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot City
      • Blackfoot City is located in Powell County

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

Cemeteries Near Copper Camp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Copper Camp.

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

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

  • Lincoln Gulch Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lincoln Gulch Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lincoln Gulch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tuck Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tuck Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tuck Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Memorial Meadows Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Ovando Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Helmville Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Helmville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Helmville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Thomas Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Thomas Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Dearborn Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Seeley Lake Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Blackfoot Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blackfoot Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Blackfoot Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<5> to the south of Avon.
    • The Blackfoot Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Blackfoot City Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2498297 <4>

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

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

  • Ovando
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Helmville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Blackfoot City ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot City
    • Blackfoot City is located in Powell County

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

Newspapers Published in Copper Camp ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Copper Camp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Copper Camp, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Copper Camp.

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 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 Copper Camp:

The official website for Lewis and Clark County: www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Copper Camp, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Copper Camp) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Copper Camp. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.0702, Longitude: -112.7931       In this case, the coordinates for Copper Camp have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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