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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 Fields (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 Fields. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Fields is located in Cascade 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 Cascade County: Chouteau, Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark, Meagher & Teton.

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

  • Cascade County     (The home county of Fields)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fields, with the one closest to Fields listed first.
    • Great Falls
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Sand Coulee
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Black Eagle
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Eagle have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eagle
      • Black Eagle is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Black Eagle <1>
    • Countryside Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Countryside Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside Village
      • Countryside Village is located in Cascade County
    • Stockett
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Manchester
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
      • Manchester is located in Cascade County
    • Sun Prairie
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Prairie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
      • Sun Prairie is located in Cascade County
    • Eden
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Eden is located in Cascade County
    • Ulm
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ulm have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulm
      • Ulm is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ulm <1>
    • Belt
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belt have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belt
      • Belt is located in Cascade County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 568 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belt <1>
    • Armington
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armington
      • Armington is located in Cascade County
    • Vaughn
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Chouteau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fields, with the one closest to Fields listed first.
    • Floweree
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Highwood
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Big Sag
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sag
      • Big Sag is located in Chouteau County
    • Carter
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carter have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
      • Carter is located in Chouteau County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carter <1>
  • Judith Basin County
  • Teton County
    • Power
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Power have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power
      • Power is located in Teton County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Power <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Fields ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fields.

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

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

  • Hebrew Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hebrew Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hebrew Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Highland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Highland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Great Falls.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20910 <3>
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvary Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Great Falls.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20799 <3>
  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Olivet Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Olivet Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Big Stone Colony Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Sand Coulee Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillcrest Lawn Memorial Association
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Lawn Memorial Association
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillcrest Lawn Memorial Association have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Red Butte Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Butte Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cottonwood Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottonwood Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cottonwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pleasant Valley Colony Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Memorial Gardens
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<4> to the east of Great Falls.
    • The Sunset Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
    • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2133894 <3>
  • Ulm Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ulm Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ulm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (21 more) ...
    • Castner Falls Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Castner Falls Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Castner Falls Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Tiger Butte Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tiger Butte Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tiger Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 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.<5>

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

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

  • Sand Coulee
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Great Falls
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • North Great Falls ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Great Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Great Falls
    • North Great Falls is located in Cascade County
  • Watson ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
    • Watson is located in Cascade County
  • Truly
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Truly have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truly
    • Truly is located in Cascade County
  • Ulm
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ulm have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulm
    • Ulm is located in Cascade County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ulm <1>
  • Portage
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Portage have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
    • Portage is located in Cascade County
  • Belt
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belt have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belt
    • Belt is located in Cascade County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 568 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belt <1>
  • Armington
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armington
    • Armington is located in Cascade County
  • Vaughn
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Evans
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Evans have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans
    • Evans is located in Cascade County
  • Floweree
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Highwood
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Clair ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Clair have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
      • Saint Clair is located in Cascade County
    • Sun River
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sun River. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun River
      • Sun River is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sun River <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Fields ...

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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fields.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fields, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fields.

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 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 Fields:

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

The official website for Cascade County: www.co.cascade.mt.us/

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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Fields) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fields. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.4505, Longitude: -111.2397       In this case, the coordinates for Fields have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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 Fields, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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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