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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 Four Buttes (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 Four Buttes. 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 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.

Four Buttes is located in Daniels 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 Daniels County: Roosevelt, Sheridan & Valley.

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

  • Daniels County     (The home county of Four Buttes)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Four Buttes, with the one closest to Four Buttes listed first.
    • Scobey
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Peerless
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Flaxville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Whitetail
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Sheridan County
  • Valley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Four Buttes, with the one closest to Four Buttes listed first.
    • Richland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Glentana
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Lustre
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Four Buttes ...

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 Four Buttes.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Four Buttes, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Four Buttes.

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 Four Buttes:

Cemeteries Near Four Buttes ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Four Buttes.

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

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

  • Scobey Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scobey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scobey Cemetery
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • St. Michaels Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Michaels Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Michaels Cemetery
  • Orville Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Orville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Orville Cemetery
  • Flaxville Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Flaxville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Flaxville Cemetery
  • Whitetail Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whitetail Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whitetail Cemetery
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Fife Lake Municipal Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
  • Glentana Cemetery
    (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 Four Buttes. See our List of 1890's Communities around Four Buttes.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Four Buttes. 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Four Buttes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Four Buttes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8095, Longitude: -105.6062    
<3>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.
<4>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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