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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 East Glacier Park (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 East Glacier Park. 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 East Glacier Park ...

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 East Glacier Park: E. Glacier Park

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.

East Glacier Park is located in Glacier 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 Glacier County: Flathead, Pondera & Toole.

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

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

Cemeteries Near East Glacier Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Glacier Park.

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 East Glacier Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • East Glacier Park Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Glacier Park Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Glacier Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Afterbuffalo Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Afterbuffalo Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Afterbuffalo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Schildt Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schildt Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Schildt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Earring Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Earring Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Earring Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Willow Creek Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willow Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Birdrattler Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Birdrattler Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Birdrattler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Nightshoot Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Anne Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anne Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anne Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Holy Family Mission Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Four Horns Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Four Horns Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Four Horns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hidden Lake Colony Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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 East Glacier Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around East Glacier Park.

Newspapers Published in East Glacier Park ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Glacier Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East Glacier Park, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for East Glacier Park.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 East Glacier Park:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for East Glacier Park. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/

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 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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Glacier Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in East Glacier Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4418, Longitude: -113.2160    
<5>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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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025