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Introduction ...

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Demers is historic, it would have been located within present day Toole 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 Toole County: Glacier, Liberty & Pondera.

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

  • Toole County     (The home county of Demers)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Demers, with the one closest to Demers listed first.
    • Rim Rock Colony
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rim Rock Colony
      • Rim Rock Colony is located in Toole County
    • Sunburst
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunburst have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunburst
      • Sunburst is located in Toole County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunburst <3>
    • Sweet Grass
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Grass
      • Sweet Grass is located in Toole County
    • Kevin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kevin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
      • Kevin is located in Toole County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kevin <3>
    • Oilmont
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ethridge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Shelby
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Glacier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Demers, with the one closest to Demers listed first.
    • Santa Rita
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Cut Bank
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Demers ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Demers.

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

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

  • Rimrock Colony Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rimrock Colony Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Rimrock Colony Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rimrock Colony Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<5> to the east of Sunburst.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2133210 <6>
  • Rim Rock Colony Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Glacier Colony Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Zenith Colony Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Sweetgrass Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Sunburst Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunburst Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunburst Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Glendale Colony Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Crown Hill Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Milk River Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Seville Colony Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Hidden Lake Colony Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Toole County Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toole County Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Toole County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Valley View Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Masinasin Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Warner Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Warner Cemetery
      • The Warner Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Foremost Cemetery
      • Warner Memorial Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2339666 <6>

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

Newspapers Published in Demers ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Demers.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Demers, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Demers.

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 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 Demers:

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 Demers, 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>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.
<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- Demers) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Demers. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8850, Longitude: -112.1676       In this case, the coordinates for Demers have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.




 

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