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Introduction ...

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

We've added Dogtown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dogtown, 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 Dogtown (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 Dogtown. 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 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 Dogtown is historic, it would have been located within present day Blaine 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 Blaine County: Chouteau, Fergus, Hill & Phillips.

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

  • Blaine County     (The home county of Dogtown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dogtown, with the one closest to Dogtown listed first.
    • Fort Belknap Agency
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Belknap Agency have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Belknap Agency
      • Fort Belknap Agency is located in Blaine County
    • Harlem
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Zurich
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hogeland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Turner
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Chinook
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Lodge Pole
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
      • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
  • Phillips County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dogtown, with the one closest to Dogtown listed first.
    • Dodson
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dodson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
      • Dodson is located in Phillips County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dodson <3>
    • Wagner
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
      • Wagner is located in Phillips County

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

Newspapers Published in Dogtown ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dogtown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dogtown, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dogtown.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Dogtown:

Cemeteries Near Dogtown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dogtown.

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

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

  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Ft. Belknap Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Belknap Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Belknap Cemetery
  • Agency Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Agency Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Agency Cemetery
  • Harlem Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harlem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harlem Cemetery
  • Graveyard Hill Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Graveyard Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graveyard Hill Cemetery
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
  • Turner Colony Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Wing Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Cleveland Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Turner Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Turner Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Turner Cemetery
  • Messerly Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Messerly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Messerly Cemetery
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...

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

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

  • Savoy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Savoy have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savoy
    • Savoy is located in Blaine County
  • Harlem
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Zurich
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Wagner
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
    • Wagner is located in Phillips County
  • Chinook
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

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 Dogtown, 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dogtown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dogtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4686, Longitude: -108.6215       In this case, the coordinates for Dogtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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