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Introduction ...

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 Drexel (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 Drexel. 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 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.

Drexel is located in Mineral 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 Mineral County: Clearwater (ID), Shoshone (ID), Missoula & Sanders.

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

  • Mineral County     (The home county of Drexel)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Drexel, with the one closest to Drexel listed first.
    • Cabin City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Cabin City is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin City
    • De Borgia
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Regis
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Haugan
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Saltese
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • East Portal ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • East Portal is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Portal
    • Superior
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Riverbend
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Riverbend is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbend
    • Crescent City ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Crescent City is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent City
  • Missoula County
    • Old Town
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Old Town is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
  • Sanders County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Drexel, with the one closest to Drexel listed first.
    • Eddy
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Eddy is located in Sanders County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eddy
    • Thompson Falls
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Plains
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Island City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Island City is located in Sanders County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
    • Paradise
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Shoshone County (ID)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Drexel, with the one closest to Drexel listed first.
    • Larson
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Larson is located in Shoshone County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larson
    • Avery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Mullan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Mullan is located in Shoshone County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 691 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mullan <1>
    • Burke ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Burke is located in Shoshone County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke

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

Cemeteries Near Drexel ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Drexel.

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 Drexel - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • De Borgia Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Regis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Saltese Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Dominion Peak Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • VFW Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Heller Grave
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Fraternal Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fraternal Cemetery
    • The Fraternal Cemetery has also been known as:
    • IOOF Cemetery
  • Wild Rose Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Superior Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Superior Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northwest of Superior.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157443 <2>
  • Lynch Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Plains Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Paradise Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Gingery Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Camas Prairie Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Hominsto Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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.<4>

While we didn't find Drexel in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Drexel.

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

  • De Borgia
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint Regis
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Saltese
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Eddy
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Eddy is located in Sanders County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eddy
  • Superior
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Plains
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Borax
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Borax is located in Mineral County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borax
  • Paradise
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Belknap
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Belknap is located in Sanders County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap
  • Mullan
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Mullan is located in Shoshone County (ID)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mullan
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 691 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mullan <1>
  • Burke ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Burke is located in Shoshone County (ID)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke

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

Newspapers Published in Drexel ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Drexel.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Drexel, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Drexel.

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 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 Drexel:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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- Drexel) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Drexel, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.