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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Monida during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Monida was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Monida (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 Monida. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Monida is located in Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead County: Clark (ID), Fremont (ID), Lemhi (ID), Deer Lodge, Madison, Ravalli & Silver Bow.

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

  • Beaverhead County     (The home county of Monida)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monida, with the one closest to Monida listed first.
    • Lima
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lima have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima
      • Lima is located in Beaverhead County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lima <3>
    • Dell
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lakeview
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
      • Lakeview is located in Beaverhead County
  • Clark County (ID)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monida, with the one closest to Monida listed first.
    • Spencer
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spencer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Spencer is located in Clark County (ID)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spencer <3>
    • Kilgore
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilgore
      • Kilgore is located in Clark County (ID)
    • Dubois
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dubois have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubois
      • Dubois is located in Clark County (ID)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 589 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dubois <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Monida ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Monida.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Monida, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Monida.

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 Monida:

Cemeteries Near Monida ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Monida.

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

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

  • Lima Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • New Kilgore Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Kilgore Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kilgore Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kilgore 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.<6>

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

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

  • Lima
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lima have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima
    • Lima is located in Beaverhead County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lima <3>
  • Dell
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Monida and then turned west". While Monida could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Monida as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Monida could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Just in case there has been confusion between counties, we found that there are two Montana communities named Monida: This one is located in Beaverhead County and the other is located in Madison County. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Monida.
<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>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- Monida) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monida. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5624, Longitude: -112.3138    
<5>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.
<6>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 Monida, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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