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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Hunters Hot Springs (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 Hunters Hot Springs. 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 Hunters Hot Springs ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Hunters Hot Springs: Hunters Hot Spgs. (or less commonly used: Hunters Hot Spngs. or Hunters Hot Sprngs.)
  • While the name of this community is Hunters Hot Springs, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Hunters Hot Springs may originally have been Hunter's Hot Springs.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Hunters Hot Springs might be written as Hunter Hot Springs.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Hunters Hot Springs is located in Park 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 Park County: Carbon, Gallatin, Meagher, Stillwater, Sweet Grass & Park (WY).

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

  • Park County     (The home county of Hunters Hot Springs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hunters Hot Springs, with the one closest to Hunters Hot Springs listed first.
    • Springdale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Livingston
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Clyde Park
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Pine Creek is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
    • Brisbin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Brisbin is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisbin
    • Hoppers
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Hoppers is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoppers
    • Wilsall
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Gallatin County
    • Bridger
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Bridger is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger
  • Sweet Grass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hunters Hot Springs, with the one closest to Hunters Hot Springs listed first.
    • McLeod
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Big Timber
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Greycliff
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Sourdough
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Sourdough is located in Sweet Grass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sourdough
    • Melville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Hunters Hot Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hunters Hot Springs.

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 Hunters Hot Springs - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Bruffey Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Poor Farm Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the northeast of Livingston.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20796 <4>
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Big Timber.
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Big Timber Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #672769 <4>
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Livingston.
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mountainview Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21013 <4>
  • Park View Memorial Gardens Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Sykes Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Strickland Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Cokedale Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Wilsall Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Vaters Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Shorthill Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Muir Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Hunters Hot Springs had a population of 54 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Springdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Elton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Elton is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
  • McLeod
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Livingston
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Big Timber
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Clyde Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Greycliff
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Hoppers
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Hoppers is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoppers
  • Brisbin
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Brisbin is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisbin
  • Muir
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Muir is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muir
  • Meyersburg ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Meyersburg is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meyersburg
  • West End
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • West End is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West End
  • Melville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Hunters Hot Springs ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hunters Hot Springs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hunters Hot Springs, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hunters Hot Springs.

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 Hunters Hot Springs:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hunters Hot Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.
<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 Hunters Hot Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.