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Introduction ...

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

We've added Norwegian Settlement to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Norwegian Settlement, 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 Norwegian Settlement (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 Norwegian Settlement. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Norwegian Settlement is historic, it would have been located within present day Sweet Grass 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 Sweet Grass County: Golden Valley, Meagher, Park, Stillwater & Wheatland.

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

  • Sweet Grass County     (The home county of Norwegian Settlement)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Norwegian Settlement, with the one closest to Norwegian Settlement listed first.
    • Melville
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Sourdough
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sourdough
      • Sourdough is located in Sweet Grass County
    • Big Timber
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Greycliff
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Meagher County
  • Park County
  • Wheatland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Norwegian Settlement, with the one closest to Norwegian Settlement listed first.
    • Twodot
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Harlowton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harlowton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlowton
      • Harlowton is located in Wheatland County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 998 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harlowton <2>
    • Shawmut
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Norwegian Settlement ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Norwegian Settlement.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Norwegian Settlement, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Norwegian Settlement.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Norwegian Settlement:

Cemeteries Near Norwegian Settlement ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Norwegian Settlement.

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

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

  • Melville Lutheran Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Hopkins Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Big Timber.
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Big Timber Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #672769 <5>
  • Twodot Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Twodot Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Twodot Cemetery
  • Catholic Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catholic Cemetery
  • Duncan Ranch Colony Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Harlowton Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harlowton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harlowton Cemetery
  • Lebo Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Thomas Massacre Gravesite
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
  • Kent Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Gauglerville Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gauglerville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gauglerville 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.

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

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

  • Melville
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Big Timber
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Greycliff
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Hunters Hot Springs
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunters Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Hot Springs
    • Hunters Hot Springs is located in Park County
  • Shawmut
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Springdale
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Martinsdale
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Norwegian Settlement. See our List of 1890's Communities around Norwegian Settlement.

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 Norwegian Settlement, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Norwegian Settlement) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Norwegian Settlement. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.1083, Longitude: -109.9757       In this case, the coordinates for Norwegian Settlement have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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