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Introduction ...

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

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

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 occur.

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

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 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 Crow Creek City is historic, it would have been located within present day Broadwater 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 Broadwater County: Gallatin, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark & Meagher.

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

  • Broadwater County     (The home county of Crow Creek City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crow Creek City, with the one closest to Crow Creek City listed first.
    • Radersburg
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Toston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Townsend
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Copper City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Copper City is located in Broadwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
    • Winston
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Diamond City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Diamond City is located in Broadwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
  • Gallatin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crow Creek City, with the one closest to Crow Creek City listed first.
    • Three Forks
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Francis
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Francis is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Francis
    • Willow Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Manhattan
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Gallop ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Gallop is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallop
    • Hillman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Hillman is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillman
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crow Creek City, with the one closest to Crow Creek City listed first.
    • Elkhorn
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
    • Jefferson City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Boulder
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Alhambra
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Alhambra is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alhambra
    • Clancy
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cardwell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Comet ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Comet is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comet
      • Comet has also been known as:
      • High Ore
    • Montana City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Madison County
    • Jefferson Island
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jefferson Island is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Island

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

Cemeteries Near Crow Creek City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crow Creek City.

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 Crow Creek City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Parker Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Radersburg Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Shull Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • The Shull Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shull Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2384725 <4>
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Deep Creek Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Townsend.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #212216 <4>
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Elkhorn Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Headwaters Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Lavina Chapel Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavina Chapel Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lavina Chapel Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the north of Townsend.
    • The Lavina Chapel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Duck Creek Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2264764 <4>
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Fairview Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Logan Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Winston Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)

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

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

  • Toston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Townsend
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Canton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Canton is located in Broadwater County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
  • Elkhorn
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
  • Gallatin ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Gallatin is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallatin
  • Three Forks
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Logan
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Logan is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
  • Willow Creek
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Jefferson City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Boulder
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Manhattan
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Corbin
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Corbin is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corbin
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Amazon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Amazon is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amazon
    • Clancy
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Alhambra
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Alhambra is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alhambra

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

Newspapers Published in Crow Creek City ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crow Creek City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crow Creek City, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crow Creek City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Crow Creek City:

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 Crow Creek City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Crow Creek City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.