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 Mizpah (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 Mizpah. 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 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.

Mizpah is located in Custer 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 Custer County: Carter, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Prairie & Rosebud.

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

• Custer County     (The home county of Mizpah)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Mizpah, with the one closest to Mizpah listed first.
  • Ismay
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ismay
    • Ismay is located in Custer County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 19 people
    • Former name for Ismay:
    • Joe
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ismay <1>
  • Kinsey
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinsey
    • Kinsey is located in Custer County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kinsey <1>
  • Miles City
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miles City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
    • Miles City is located in Custer County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,181 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miles City <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Mizpah ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mizpah.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mizpah, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mizpah.

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 Mizpah:

• 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 Custer 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 Custer County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Custer County

Cemeteries Near Mizpah ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mizpah.

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

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

• MacKenzie Family Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the MacKenzie Family Cemetery
• Knowlton Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Knowlton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knowlton Cemetery
• Cottonwood Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cottonwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottonwood Cemetery
• Ismay Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ismay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ismay Cemetery
• Pine Crest Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Crest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Crest Cemetery
• Pine Hills School Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hills School Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hills School Cemetery
• Custer County Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Custer County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Custer County Cemetery
• Calvary Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvary 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.<4>

While we didn't find Mizpah in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Mizpah.

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

• Beebe
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beebe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
  • Beebe is located in Custer County
• Etna ‑ Historic
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Etna have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
  • Etna is located in Custer County
• Miles City
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miles City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
  • Miles City is located in Custer County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,181 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miles City <1>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mizpah. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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