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Introduction ...

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

We've added Midby to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Midby, 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 Midby (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 Midby. 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 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 Midby is historic, it would have been located within present day Sheridan 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 Sheridan County: Daniels, Roosevelt, Divide (ND) & Williams (ND).

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

  • Sheridan County     (The home county of Midby)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Midby, with the one closest to Midby listed first.
    • Plentywood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plentywood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plentywood
      • Plentywood is located in Sheridan County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,712 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plentywood <3>
    • Raymond
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Outlook
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Antelope
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • Antelope is located in Sheridan County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Antelope <3>
    • Redstone
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Daleview
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daleview
      • Daleview is located in Sheridan County
    • Reserve
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Medicine Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medicine Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Lake
      • Medicine Lake is located in Sheridan County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 219 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medicine Lake <3>
    • Comertown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comertown
      • Comertown is located in Sheridan County
    • Dagmar
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Westby
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Daniels County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Midby, with the one closest to Midby listed first.
    • Flaxville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Whitetail
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Midby ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Midby.

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

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

  • Archer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Archer Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Archer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plentywood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plentywood Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plentywood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Plentywood Memorial Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plentywood Memorial Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plentywood Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Highland Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Highland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Highland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Redstone Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Redstone Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Redstone Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Christensen Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christensen Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Christensen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Valleyview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valleyview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valleyview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rock Spring Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Antelope Catholic Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antelope Catholic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antelope Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Antelope Creek Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antelope Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antelope Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Faith Lutheran Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Faith Lutheran Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Faith Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethany Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethany Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (28 more) ...
    • Wankel Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wankel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wankel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21157 <4>
    • Dooley Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dooley Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dooley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Trinity Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trinity Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Midby ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Midby.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Midby, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Midby.

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 Midby:

The official website for Sheridan County: www.co.sheridan.mt.us/

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

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 Midby, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Midby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Midby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7678, Longitude: -104.6861       In this case, the coordinates for Midby have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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