Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Mills Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mills Springs, 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 Mills 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 Mills 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 Mills 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 have occurred.

• A typical abbreviation for Mills Springs: Mills Spgs. (or less commonly used: Mills Spngs. or Mills Sprngs.)

• While the name of this community is Mills Springs, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Mills Springs may originally have been Mill's Springs.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Mills Springs might be written as Mill 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Mills Springs is historic, it would have been located within present day Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Bonner (ID), Boundary (ID), Flathead & Sanders.

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

• Lincoln County     (The home county of Mills Springs)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Mills Springs, with the one closest to Mills Springs listed first.
  • Eureka
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
    • Eureka is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,445 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eureka <3>
  • Rexford
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexford
    • Rexford is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 161 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rexford <3>
  • Fortine
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortine
    • Fortine is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fortine <3>
  • Trego
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
    • Trego is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trego <3>
  • Stryker
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stryker
    • Stryker is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stryker <3>
  • Volcour ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Volcour have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volcour
    • Volcour is located in Lincoln County
  • Warland ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warland
    • Warland is located in Lincoln County
  • Yaak
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaak
    • Yaak is located in Lincoln County

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

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 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 Mills Springs:

• 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 Lincoln County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

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

Cemeteries Near Mills Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mills 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.

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

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

• Tobacco Valley Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • The Tobacco Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Eureka Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tobacco Valley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2168244 <5>
• Roosville Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roosville Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2522165 <5>
• Fortine - Trego Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • The Fortine - Trego Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Fortine Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fortine - Trego Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1189766 <5>
• Boyd Mill Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boyd Mill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd Mill Cemetery
• Elko Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elko Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2522634 <5>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Lincoln County: www.lincolncountymt.us/

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