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Introduction ...

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

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

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 Deertail Indian Village: Deertail Indian Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Deertail Indian Village is historic, it would have been located within present day Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Daniels, McCone, Richland, Sheridan, Valley & Williams (ND).

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

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Deertail Indian Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deertail Indian Village, with the one closest to Deertail Indian Village listed first.
    • Poplar
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poplar have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
      • Poplar is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poplar <3>
    • Brockton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brockton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockton
      • Brockton is located in Roosevelt County
      • Estimated population in 2018: 234 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brockton <3>
    • Culbertson
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Wolf Point
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Dawson County
    • Richey
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • McCone County
  • Richland County
    • Enid
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
      • Enid is located in Richland County

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

Cemeteries Near Deertail Indian Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deertail Indian Village.

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 Deertail Indian Village covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Poplar Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poplar Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Poplar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grandview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Boxelder Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boxelder Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boxelder Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Anns Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anns Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Bernards Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Nickwall Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nickwall Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Nickwall Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<5> to the west of Wolf Point.
    • The Nickwall Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21043 <4>
  • Lynd Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynd Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lynd Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lynd Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynd Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lynd Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • Chelsa Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chelsa Cemetery
    • The Chelsa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Minisdah Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Ft. Kipp Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Elmdale Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmdale Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elmdale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Mona Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mona Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mona Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

  • Culbertson
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Deertail Indian Village ...

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 Deertail Indian Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Deertail Indian Village, 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 Deertail Indian Village.

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 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 Deertail Indian Village:

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 Deertail Indian Village, 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 'straight-line' (or 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- Deertail Indian Village) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Deertail Indian Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.0864, Longitude: -105.0653       In this case, the coordinates for Deertail Indian Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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