Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Lakeview to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lakeview, please Contact Us.

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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 Lakeview (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 Lakeview. 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 Lakeview ...

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.

Another variation: Lake View.

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 northwest 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Lakeview is historic, it would have been located within present day Valley 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 Valley County: Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Phillips & Roosevelt.

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

• Valley County     (The home county of Lakeview)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Lakeview, with the one closest to Lakeview listed first.
  • Fort Peck
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Peck have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Peck
    • Fort Peck is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Peck <3>
  • Nashua
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nashua have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashua
    • Nashua is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nashua <3>
  • Glasgow
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasgow
    • Glasgow is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,315 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glasgow <3>
  • Frazer
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frazer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer
    • Frazer is located in Valley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frazer <3>
  • Saint Marie
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Marie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Marie
    • Saint Marie is located in Valley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Marie <3>
  • Vandalia
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandalia
    • Vandalia is located in Valley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vandalia <3>
• McCone County
  • McCone City ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCone City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCone City
    • McCone City is located in McCone County

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

Newspapers Published in Lakeview ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lakeview.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lakeview, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lakeview.

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 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 Lakeview:

• Websites specific to Montana
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Montana Historical Society

• Pages specific to Valley County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • McCone County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Valley County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Lakeview ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lakeview.

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

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

• Ft. Peck Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Peck Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Peck Cemetery
• Ft. Peck Dam Disaster Memorial
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Peck Dam Disaster Memorial
• Galpin Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Galpin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galpin Cemetery
• Memorial Gardens
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Gardens
• Nashua Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nashua Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nashua Cemetery
• Highland Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • The Highland Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Glasgow Highland Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20895 <5>
• St. Joseph Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Joseph Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph Cemetery
• Sunset Rest Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Rest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Rest Cemetery

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

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

• Nashua
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nashua have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashua
  • Nashua is located in Valley County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nashua <3>
• Glasgow
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasgow
  • Glasgow is located in Valley County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,315 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glasgow <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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