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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 Mountain View Court (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 Mountain View Court. 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 Mountain View Court ...

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 occur.

Another variation: Mountainview Court.

  • A typical abbreviation for Mountain View Court: Mountain Vw. Ct. (or less commonly used: Mountain Vw. Crt.)

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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Mountain View Court is located in Missoula County.

To see how the shape of Montana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Missoula County: Clearwater (ID), Idaho (ID), Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Powell, Ravalli & Sanders.

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

  • Missoula County     (The home county of Mountain View Court)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View Court, with the one closest to Mountain View Court listed first.
    • Bonner
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Milltown
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Piltzville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Piltzville is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piltzville
    • East Missoula
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • East Missoula is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Missoula
    • Missoula
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Travois Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Travois Village is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travois Village
    • Orchard Homes
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Orchard Homes is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Homes
    • De Smet
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • De Smet is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Smet
    • Wye
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Clinton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Grass Valley
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Grass Valley is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
    • Lolo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Evaro
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Evaro is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evaro
  • Granite County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View Court, with the one closest to Mountain View Court listed first.
    • Beartown ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Beartown is located in Granite County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown
    • Garnet ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Garnet is located in Granite County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garnet
    • Stump Town ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Stump Town is located in Granite County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stump Town
    • Bearmouth ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bearmouth is located in Granite County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearmouth
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View Court, with the one closest to Mountain View Court listed first.
    • Arlee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Ravalli
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Mineral County
    • Alberton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Powell County
    • Reynolds City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Reynolds City is located in Powell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds City
  • Ravalli County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View Court, with the one closest to Mountain View Court listed first.
    • Florence
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Stevensville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Cinnabar Court
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Cinnabar Court is located in Ravalli County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cinnabar Court

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

Cemeteries Near Mountain View Court ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountain View Court.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Mountain View Court - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mountain View Court covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • St. Mary Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • St. Mary Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Missoula Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Post Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Florence - Carlton Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Frenchtown Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jocko Valley Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Woodman Pioneer Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Joseph's Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Sunnyside Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Sand Park Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Park Cemetery
    • The Sand Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Coloma Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...

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.<3>

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

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

  • Bonner
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Missoula
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • De Smet
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • De Smet is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Smet
  • Clinton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Grass Valley
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Grass Valley is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
  • Lolo
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Evaro
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Evaro is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evaro
  • Potomac
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Potomac is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potomac
  • Carlton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Carlton is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
  • Frenchtown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Arlee
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Bitter Root ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Bitter Root is located in Ravalli County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitter Root
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Huson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Beartown ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Beartown is located in Granite County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown
    • Ninemile
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Ninemile is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninemile

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

Newspapers Published in Mountain View Court ...

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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain View Court.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mountain View Court, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mountain View Court.

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 either 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 Mountain View Court:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 Mountain View Court, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Mountain View Court) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.