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Introduction ...

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

We've added Gauglersville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gauglersville, 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 Gauglersville (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 Gauglersville. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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 Gauglersville is historic, it would have been located within present day Meagher 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 Meagher County: Broadwater, Cascade, Gallatin, Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark, Park, Sweet Grass & Wheatland.

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

  • Meagher County     (The home county of Gauglersville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gauglersville, with the one closest to Gauglersville listed first.
    • Martinsdale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Robinson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Robinson is located in Meagher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
    • Castle Town
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Castle Town is located in Meagher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Town
    • Loweth
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Loweth is located in Meagher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loweth
    • Ringling
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • White Sulphur Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Fergus County
  • Judith Basin County
    • Sapphire Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Sapphire Village is located in Judith Basin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapphire Village
  • Sweet Grass County
  • Wheatland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gauglersville, with the one closest to Gauglersville listed first.
    • Twodot
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Harlowton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Judith Gap
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Gauglersville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gauglersville.

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

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

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

  • Gauglerville Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Twodot Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Lebo Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Duncan Ranch Colony
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan Ranch Colony
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Duncan Ranch Colony is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<4> to the west of Harlowton.
    • The Duncan Ranch Colony has also been known as:
    • Duncan Ranch Colony Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2484271 <3>
  • Lennep Memorial Park Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Castle Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Hopkins Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Catholic Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Harlowton Catholic Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Harlowton Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlowton Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Harlowton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Harlowton.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #511955 <3>
    • Judith Gap Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judith Gap Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Judith Gap Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Judith Gap.
      • The Judith Gap Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Woodlawn Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #197831 <3>
    • Melville Lutheran Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Ubet Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Mayn Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Martinsdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Robinson
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Robinson is located in Meagher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson

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

Newspapers Published in Gauglersville ...

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 Gauglersville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gauglersville, 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 Gauglersville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Gauglersville:

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